Name
Basil Middleton Fenwick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/08/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
109
Australian Light Horse
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONE PINE MEMORIAL
9.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 2 Sep 1885 in Pool, Yorkshire son of Charles Richard and Margaret (Middleton) Fenwick. Educated at Haileybury College. He went to the Murchison Goldfield, Western Australia in 1909.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of the war, he volunteered and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force leaving for the Dardanelles in Feb 1915. He was wounded in the counter-attack at Quinn’s Point on 30 May 1915 and was invalided out to Alexandria. He returned, promoted to Sergeant in Aug 1915, and was killed in action during the attack on Walker’s Ridge along with about 700 other men.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
