Daniel Stanfield
was a Private Marine, 55th (Portsmouth) Company. He served at Port Jackson in the company of Captain James Campbell and was to have a well-documented history in the colony.
Alice Harmsworth
accompanied her husband Thomas, a Private Marine and their two children, arriving aboard the Prince of Wales. On the 25 February 1788, a few weeks after arriving in Sydney Cove, Alice lost her son Thomas who had been born on the voyage followed by Thomas in the April. Two years later she born a son Daniel to Daniel Stanfield and they were married on 15 October 1791. The family settled on Norfolk Island, then in 1808 they left the Island by City of Edinburgh to VDL (Tasmania).
Edward Kimberley
was sentenced to seven years transportation for grand larceny (theft of several parcels of muslins from a milliner’s shop) at Coventry, Warwickshire on 23 March 1783. He spent time on the Ceres or Censor and Justinia Hulks before embarking on the transport Scarborough. At Sydney on 20 October 1791 Edward married Mary Cavenor/Cavenagh off the Lady Juliana, Second Fleet
Read more on Daniel and Edward under stories.
Honouring their WW1 Descendants
63355 Clarence Bramich (Brother to Henry and Leslie Bramich)
Private, 12th Battalion 1 to 3 (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements (May-October 1918) 3rd (T) Reinforcements
Born 17 August 1897 Tasmania to Leslie and Ellen (Bennett) Bramich
Occupation Labourer
Enlisted 12 August1918 aged 21 Next-of-kin, Father Leslie Bramich Armistead Kimberley, Tasmania
Embarked Melbourne 5 October 1918 aboard SS Zealandic
Served in France
Returned to Australia 25 September 1919 per HT Port Denison.
Discharged 30 November 1919. Reason: Demobilisation
63356 Henry Charles Bramich (Brother to Clarence and Leslie Bramich)
Private, 12th Battalion 1 to 3 (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements (May-October 1918) 3rd (T) Reinforcements
Born 26 August 1888 Tasmania to Leslie and Ellen (Bennett) Bramich
Occupation Labourer
Enlisted 12 August 1918 aged 30 Next-of-kin, Father Leslie Bramich Armistead Kimberley, Tasmania
Embarked Melbourne 5 October 1918 aboard SS Zealandic
Returned to Australia 16 May 1919 per Shropshire
Discharged 24 July 1919. Reason: Medically Unfit
3282 Leslie Frederick Bramich (Brother to Clarence and Henry Bramich)
Private 40th Infantry Battalion – 1 to 9 Reinforcements (July-October 1917)
Born 13 April 1887 Tasmania to Leslie and Ellen (Bennett) Bramich
Enlisted 8 July 1916 aged 29 Next-of-kin, Father Leslie Bramich Tasmania
Embarked Sydney 14 June 1917 aboard HMAT Hororata A20
Disembarked England 26 August 1917
Returned to Australia 6 June 1918 per HMAT Suevic A29
Discharged 29 August 1918 (Defective Vision)
Submitted by Phillip Lock
218 James Mark Kerr (Brother to John and Thomas Kerr)
Trooper, 8th Light Horse Regiment (February 1915)
Born 6th May 1887 Dartmoor Victoria to James and Lydia (Emerson) Kerr
Occupation Teamster
Enlisted 21 September 1914 aged 27
Embarked 25 February 1915 HMAT Star of Victoria A16 Service at Gallipoli Peninsula Embarked for Australia 16 October 1915 per HMA HS Kanowna ex Hospital Port Said
Died from Diphtheria 19 November 1915. Site of Grave: At Sea
Chatby War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria Egypt
Memorial details: Alexandria Chatby Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
1236 John Charles Matthew Kerr (Brother to James and Thomas Kerr)
Driver, 22nd Infantry Battalion AIF
Born 18 April 1894 Dartmoor Victoria to James and Lydia (Emerson) Kerr
Enlisted February 1915 aged 21
Embarked 10th May 1915 aboard HMAT Ulysses A38
Died 14 October 1915 from Diphtheria Heliopolis Cairo Egypt
Cairo War Cemetery
Buried in grave D130, Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
7032 Thomas Emerson Kimberley Kerr (Brother to James and John Kerr)
Private, 6th Infantry Battalion – 19 to 23 Reinforcements (July-November 1916)
Born 1895 Dartmoor Victoria to James and Lydia (Emerson) Kerr
Occupation Farmer
Enlisted 26 October 1916, aged 20
Embarked Melbourne 23 November 1916 aboard HMAT Hororata A20
Service in France
Returned to Australia 26 January 1919 per Ceramic
The three Kerr boys are remembered on the Greenwald, near Heywood S-W Victoria, World War 1 Avenue of Honour. The avenue, was planted along the main road in front of the Greenwald State School on 22 August 1918
This is a picture, of Mark and John Kerr. They are harvesting logs in the Kentbruck Forest prior to The Great War. Their father Jim Kerr was likely the owner of the bullock team as he and his father (Charles Kerr) had earlier pegged out the Drik Drik property and used the proceeds of Sheaok logs to buy the bullocks- so I’m told. The logs were intended for a new Pier at Portland harbor but did not eventuate. The other brother Tom Kerr also enlisted and went to war but died also from his wounds after returning home. Their mother Lydia went to meet the train to welcome home her three boys and only Tom was there. (courtesy Barry Kerr and Carol Armstrong)
Submitted by Carol Armstrong
My Grandpa Tom served in WW1, he was a fifth generation Australian
364 Thomas Charles Newtown
Private, 14th Infantry Battalion (December 1914)
Born 1888
Occupation Farm Hand
Enlisted 10 September 1914 at Warracknabeal aged 25 Next of kin, Mrs J Newtown, Portland Victoria
Embarked Melbourne 22 December 1914 aboard HMAT Ulysses A38
Thomas Charles Newton, aged 19 (courtesy Antonia George)
14th Battalion and Grandpa Tom’s part in it: The Headquarters of the 14th Battalion opened at an office at 178 Collins Street, Melbourne in the last week of September 1914. On 1 October, it relocated to the Broadmeadows Camp where the battalion’s recruits, principally from Melbourne and its suburbs, were taken on strength and trained.
With the 13th, 15th and 16th Battalions, the 14th formed the 4th Brigade commanded by Colonel John Monash. It embarked for overseas on 22 December and, after a brief stop in Albany Western Australia, arrived in Egypt on 31 January 1915. In Egypt, the 4th Brigade became part of the New Zealand and Australian Division with which it would serve at Gallipoli.
The 4th Brigade landed at Anzac Cove on the afternoon of 25 April 1915. On 19 May, the Turks launched a massive counter-attack. During this fighting, Lance Corporal Albert Jacka of the 14th was awarded the AIF’s first Victoria Cross. Jacka’s leadership and courage became legendary within the AIF and he was eventually commissioned in the 14th Battalion, which came to be widely known as “Jacka’s Mob”. From May to August 1915, the battalion was heavily involved in establishing and defending the Anzac front line.
On 19th May 1915, Thomas Charles Newtown was wounded in the hand by shrapnel at the Dardanelles and was sent to Heliopolis Greece and then repatriated. On 15th August 1915, he set sail on the Themistocles for Australia and was discharged on 20th December 1915.
It wasn’t until the 1960s that Isabel Constance Newtown, Thomas’s wife and my grandmother, claimed his war medals including the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. My interpretation for this delay is that my grandfather, Grandpa Tom as we called them, would have felt that his contribution to the war was minimal having seen active service for less than a month. So he wouldn’t have bothered to collect them. It was left to Nanna to collect them after his death.
As kids (my brothers and I), when we asked him his fingers (the middle finger of one hand was missing as well as part of another; in addition to this he had no nail of another finger). Grandpa Tom would tell is that Nanna got really mad at him one day. So we would get a graphic description of how he lost one whole part as well as other parts of his digits, one-by-one. The story was made even more graphic when he would tell us how he gouged out one of Nanna’s eyes (Nanna had a glass eye due to the removal of a tumor behind the eye). We loved these stories even though we didn’t believe Grandpa Tom. Meanwhile, Nanna would be saying: stop it Tom in the background. That meant that the stories were for both ours and Nanna’s entertainment. My mother always told us that the war was never discussed within the family. This was further reinforced when Mum’s brother Lindsay was killed over Germany in WW11.
I have great memories of Grandpa Tom. He helped my Dad out with the harvest (picking and drying sultanas for the dried fruit market) in the early part of the year, usually late February to mid April, and we spent our Christmases and summer holidays with Nanna and Grandpa Tom at Portland. Lots of time to build great memories including the early morning trips on the crayfish boats with Grandpa and Ernie “Jinnins” (aka Jennings).
Submitted by Antonia George