Biographies
Returned to Australia 30/1/1918 Lakemba RSC Roll of Honour
Pollick (Pollock), Driver David Henry no.l608A 5th Division Artillery Corps MM Enlisted 4/8/1915 Military Medal citation 26/4/1918 (AWM 5th Australian Division): On 24th April 1918, Driver Pollock was centre driver of a team comprising portion of a convoy carting ammunition to the 55th Battery A.F.A. When passing along a sunken road nearing the BONNAY cross roads, the convoy came under very heavy shell fire, killing two complete teams and wounding all the drivers. Driver Pollock, although himself wounded, immediately picked himself up and went to the assistance of the other drivers. Although the shell fire was particularly heavy and concentrated on this one point, this driver with utter disregard of personal danger extricated from amongst the dying mules one of the other drivers who was badly wounded, and still under heavy shell fire carried him 200 yards to a sap where his -wounds could be dressed His coolness under fire and his disregard of personal danger although himself wounded set a very high example of courage and devotion to duty.
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4/10/1918 Monument, Canterbury Public School Roll of Honour, Canterbury District
Porter, Sergeant Frederick Ernest no.955 30th Battalion Headquarters Baltimore Street, Belmore. Bootmaker Born 1887, son of William & Mildred A Porter. Enlisted 5/7/1915. Church of England. Next of kin, father, William Porter, Baltimore Street, Belmore. Embarked from Sydney 9/11/1915 per HMAT A72 Beltana Returned to Australia 31/3/1919 Married Bessie I. Davis 1921. Roll of Honour, Canterbury District
Returned to Australia 14/1/1919 Monument, The Broadway, Punchbowl
Pomroy, Corporal Edward John no.5387 18th Battalion 14th Reinforcements Allan Avenue, Belmore. Stonemason Enlisted at Sydney 3/3/1916, aged 30. Single. Church of England. Next of kin, uncle, Thomas Pomroy, Allan Avenue, Belmore. Casualty list SMH 23/10/1917 Killed in Action Killed in action 20/9/1917 at Polygon Wood. Memorial on the Menin Gate. Tele/Mirror list 11/11/1993 Killed in action 20/9/1917 Anzac Memorial
Poole, Private Clarence (Clarie) Edward no. 50194 22nd Battalion Canterbury Road, Canterbury Born 1897, son of Amelia Margaret and the late Edward John Poole of Canterbury Road, Canterbury. Enlisted at Canterbury 20/3/1918 Died 4/10/1918 at Geneve, aged 21 Buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, France, grave III.B.12 Tele/Mirror list 11/11/1993 Killed in action
Private Frederick Owen Porter Sydney Mail 10/7/1918
Porter, Private Frederick Owen no.2952 60th Battalion DCM Lakemba Born 1897, son of George T. & Sarah J. Porter. Enlisted at Punchbowl 25/9/1916 Citation for Distinguished Conduct Medal 10/5/1918 (AWM 5th Australian Division): During the attack at VILLERS BRETONNEUX east of Amiens, on the night 26th/27th April 1918, Private Porter displayed the greatest bravery in rushing (singlehanded) a group of ten of the enemy. He ran forward well in the advance of our line and bayoneted five of the