Wamsley, Cecil Carrington

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Bragg, Edmund Allen Wamsley, Cecil Carrington

Service Service Number Number 1494 1017 Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Killed in Action 26th July 1916 Gallipoli Peninsula Pozieres, France

Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of Benalyn Campbell And Vivienne Tranter in compiling this resource

The information in this file has been extracted from official records held in the The Australian War Memorial and National Archives of Australia (ÂŠ Commonwealth of Australia [National Archives of Australia] 2013) Further information on this soldier may be found online at: Commonwealth War Graves The AIF project Content advisory: This file may potentially contain disturbing accounts of service-related injury and death, disease and family grief. Adult supervision is recommended for children using these resources. Individual files should be viewed within the context provided by wider research on service conditions in the 1 st AIF. This resource is presented by Gosford City Council for research purposes only. Please note that copyright for resources contained within remains with the original copyright owners.

NAME

Wamsley, Cecil Carrington

SERVICE NO

1017

UNIT

20th Battalion C Coy/

RANK

Private

AGE at Enlistment

24 yrs 4 mths

PLACE OF BIRTH

Ourimbah, NSW

ADDRESS OCCUPATION

Bushman

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

26 Mar 1915

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT PREVIOUS SERVICE

Liverpool, NSW

NEXT OF KIN PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Mother;- Eliza Wamsley, “Ivy Cottage” Ourimbah Father;- Archibald Albert Ernest Walmsley Height-5’8¾”. Weight 152lbs. Chest-31½-34½”. Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Hazel. Hair-Brown.

RELIGION

C/E

EMBARKED

26 Jun 1915- Sydney per A 35 “Berrima”

DISEMBARKED NOTES

Posted missing 26 Jul 1916

WOUNDED/ILLNESS

25-26 Jul 1916- hit by machine gun fire

DIED

26 Jul 1916 Pozieres, France (in the arms of his friend Henry James Walsh no 1782, 20th Btn).

BURIED MEDALS

1914-15 Star-18827, British War Medal-15986, Victory Medal-15915. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-330416.

DEPENDANTS PERSONAL EFFECTS

3 Handkerchiefs, pipe in case, diary, military book, gloves, cards/

WILL CORRESPONDENCE

Eliza Walmsley/

REMARKS RED CROSS REPORT

Known as “Curley Wamsley”/

Gosford Times 10th December 1915 Private C.C. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, writing to the “Gosford Times” from Anzac, Gallipoli, under date 19th October, says:Just a line to thank you for for your welcome paper – “the “Gosford Times”. We have been in the trenches for seven weeks, and are feeling O.K. A few of the 20th have gone under, but the wounds of others only seem to make the boys more determined than ever.

Gosford Times 25th January 1917 A photo of Private C.C. Wamsley, of Ourimbah (reported missing), appears in Friday’s TELEGRAPH, also Private William Tier, killed in action.

Gosford Times 5th April 1917 PRIVATE “CURLY” WALMSLEY Though Private “Curly” Wamsley, son of Mr and Mrs A.E. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, was reported missing in France on 26th July last year, no official notification of his death has been received from the military authorities. Private letters, how ever, forwarded from comrades who were eye witnesses to his death on the battlefield. Private Walsh, who belonged to the 20th Battalion with “Curly”, was wounded in the same bayonet charge, and has been invalided home. He makes the following report to the Australian Red Cross Society – I knew “Curly” Wamsley in Egypt and Gallipoli. He transferred while he was in Egypt into the 20th Transport Service and rejoined my Company about a week before 26th July, 1916. I was with him for a week after the attack at Pozieres – We charges together about 2 a.m. on the 26th. I was wounded early in the charge in the first line of German trenches. At the finish of the charge, about 7 or 8 a.m., I was returning to our lines to be attended to, when I met Wamsley, who was wounded in the chest or arm. I stopped in a shell hole and he went on. I moved on later and took shelter in another shell hole where I found Wamsley. He had been badly wounded by a machine gun, and had about eight bullet wounds. I cut off his trousers and bound him up, but whilst doing so he died in my arms. He could not speak when I met him the second time, but was semi-conscious. I laid him down dead, and made my way back to our lines.

Gosford Times 10th May 1917 Bert Wamsley, second eldest son of Mr and Mrs A.A. E. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, who is determined to do his bit in connection with the war, sailed in the Laborers’ Battalion on Tuesday last. Owing to the loss of an eye, Bert had been rejected no less than three times for active service, so he decided to try the Laborers’ Unit, and was duly accepted. Bert is brother to “Curly” Wamsley who has variably reported missing, a prisoner of war, and killed, but his parents inform us that no official news of his death or whereabouts has been received by them.

Gosford Times 27th September 1917 ... ROLL OF HONOR Official information is also just to hand of the death of Private C.C. (Curly) Wamsley, of the 20th Battalion, son of Mr and Mrs A.A. E. Wamsley, of Ourimbah, who was previously reported missing. The official information is that he was killed in action on July 26, 1916. ...

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 8361813

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