"He heard the call and answered. He fell open-eyed and unafraid"
IMLAY, Alexander PeterLieutenant Colonel
16th Battalion Husband of Edith H IMLAY Of 'Inverwrie' Marion Place, Prospect, SA Occupation prior to enlistment Manger Enlisted 23 September 1914 Awarded Distinguished Service Order and Bar Returned to Australia 1919 www.awm.gov.au P05772.007 |
IND, Milton Howard
Service no 1049
Lance Corporal
16th Battalion
Born 11 October 1890 at Paradise, SA
Son of Howard H IND and Matilda Dawson nee BEAGLEHOLE
BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS
LANCE-CORPORAL IND
Mrs. H.H. Ind, of Beulah road, Norwood, has received a cable message stating that her son, Lance-Corporal , Milton H. Ind was ill and admitted into the 2nd Australian General Hospital, Ghezires, on January 28. His father Sergeant Howard H. Ind, met him on January 1 on the arrival of the troops from Gallipoli, at which time they were both well.
Advertiser Saturday 12 February 1916 page 10
Lance Corporal
16th Battalion
Born 11 October 1890 at Paradise, SA
Son of Howard H IND and Matilda Dawson nee BEAGLEHOLE
BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS
LANCE-CORPORAL IND
Mrs. H.H. Ind, of Beulah road, Norwood, has received a cable message stating that her son, Lance-Corporal , Milton H. Ind was ill and admitted into the 2nd Australian General Hospital, Ghezires, on January 28. His father Sergeant Howard H. Ind, met him on January 1 on the arrival of the troops from Gallipoli, at which time they were both well.
Advertiser Saturday 12 February 1916 page 10
During the battle of Menin Road, near Polygon Wood, on 19-22 September 1917, he attacked enemy strong points, capturing machine-guns and prisoners. Already a skilful scout, during the night he also went out with a patrol and gathered useful information.
Whilst serving in France he was awarded the Victoria Cross "for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during the advance to the second objective. He moved forward through our barrage alone to an enemy strong post and captured it together with nine prisoners, killing several of the enemy. During the evening he volunteered for a special patrol which went out six hundred yards in front of our line, and there by his coolness and sound judgment obtained and sent back very valuable information as to the enemy's movements. In the early morning of the 21st September Pte Inwood located a machine gun that was causing several casualties. He went out alone and bombed the gun and team killing all but one whom he brought in as prisoner with the gun."
He returned to Australia on 24 August 1918.
Returning to a hero's welcome at Broken Hill in October Inwood contrasted, in a public speech, his departure when he was, he claimed, 'stoned by mongrels at the train', with his return when 'those mongrels were the first to shake me by the hand. If the boys stick together like they did in France there will be no Bolshevikism in this town. I would like to be at one end of the street with a machine-gun and have them at the other end'. Departing recruits had been hooted and jeered by militant socialists at Broken Hill but there is no evidence of stone throwing. M. P. Considine, member for Barrier in the House of Representatives, accused Inwood of trying 'to incite trouble between returned soldiers and the working classes'.
Broken Hill was not a comfortable place for Inwood. He soon moved to Adelaide and on 31 December 1918 married a widow Mabel Alice Collins. Inwood had difficulty in finding work. After an assault charge by police, which resulted in a fine in 1919, and his divorce in 1921, he spent short time mining at Queenstown, Tasmania, and at a eucalyptus distillery on Kangaroo Island. He returned to Adelaide and was employed by the city council as a labourer in 1928-1955.
He married Evelyn Owens in 1927 and after her death married Louise Elizabeth Gates in 1942. He had no children. A rugged, independent, well-built man, 'with the rough corners still on him', the years after his third marriage were spent happily and quietly. This loyal labourer, perhaps exploited by some at Broken Hill, gave the impression that 'his VC had not done him much good'. He never lost his pride in the 10th Battalion and always marched with them on Anzac Day. The Other Ranks Mess, 10th Battalion, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide, is called the Roy Inwood Club. His Victoria Cross hangs in the City Of Adelaide, Museum.
At age 40 years, Reginald enlisted in the Australian Army in WW2 on 29 September 1939 at Prospect, South Australia with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1. He was discharged 30 November 1944.
Roy died on 23 October 1971 in Adelaide and was given a military funeral and was buried at the West Terrace AIF Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia.
AWM H06193
Australian Dictionary Of Biography Vol.9 (1983)
Courtesy of Joy Dalgleish
Whilst serving in France he was awarded the Victoria Cross "for most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during the advance to the second objective. He moved forward through our barrage alone to an enemy strong post and captured it together with nine prisoners, killing several of the enemy. During the evening he volunteered for a special patrol which went out six hundred yards in front of our line, and there by his coolness and sound judgment obtained and sent back very valuable information as to the enemy's movements. In the early morning of the 21st September Pte Inwood located a machine gun that was causing several casualties. He went out alone and bombed the gun and team killing all but one whom he brought in as prisoner with the gun."
He returned to Australia on 24 August 1918.
Returning to a hero's welcome at Broken Hill in October Inwood contrasted, in a public speech, his departure when he was, he claimed, 'stoned by mongrels at the train', with his return when 'those mongrels were the first to shake me by the hand. If the boys stick together like they did in France there will be no Bolshevikism in this town. I would like to be at one end of the street with a machine-gun and have them at the other end'. Departing recruits had been hooted and jeered by militant socialists at Broken Hill but there is no evidence of stone throwing. M. P. Considine, member for Barrier in the House of Representatives, accused Inwood of trying 'to incite trouble between returned soldiers and the working classes'.
Broken Hill was not a comfortable place for Inwood. He soon moved to Adelaide and on 31 December 1918 married a widow Mabel Alice Collins. Inwood had difficulty in finding work. After an assault charge by police, which resulted in a fine in 1919, and his divorce in 1921, he spent short time mining at Queenstown, Tasmania, and at a eucalyptus distillery on Kangaroo Island. He returned to Adelaide and was employed by the city council as a labourer in 1928-1955.
He married Evelyn Owens in 1927 and after her death married Louise Elizabeth Gates in 1942. He had no children. A rugged, independent, well-built man, 'with the rough corners still on him', the years after his third marriage were spent happily and quietly. This loyal labourer, perhaps exploited by some at Broken Hill, gave the impression that 'his VC had not done him much good'. He never lost his pride in the 10th Battalion and always marched with them on Anzac Day. The Other Ranks Mess, 10th Battalion, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide, is called the Roy Inwood Club. His Victoria Cross hangs in the City Of Adelaide, Museum.
At age 40 years, Reginald enlisted in the Australian Army in WW2 on 29 September 1939 at Prospect, South Australia with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1. He was discharged 30 November 1944.
Roy died on 23 October 1971 in Adelaide and was given a military funeral and was buried at the West Terrace AIF Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia.
AWM H06193
Australian Dictionary Of Biography Vol.9 (1983)
Courtesy of Joy Dalgleish