Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Seang Choon’ for England 18.7.1916.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 18th Reinforcement, 16th Battalion.
Annakin disembarked at Plymouth with the 16th Battalion. They marched in to 4th Training Battalion at Rollestone 10.6.1916. The Battalion proceeded overseas to France 28.11.1916. Annakin was admitted to hospital with laryngitis 16.12.1976. He was wounded in action 5.2.1917 in Belgium with a gunshot wound to his right foot and elbow (West Australian Newspaper 10.3.1917 whilst fighting on the Somme. His Battalion spent much of 1917 pushing forward to the Hindenburg Line from trenches in Belgium (AWM 16th Battalion). Annakin was invalided with a gunshot wound at the Battle of Guedecourt in France and transferred 5/2/1917 to England per Hospital Ship ‘St. David’. He was recommended for return to Australia for a ‘change’.
Embarked UK for Australia per HS ‘Prince Henrietta’ A72 on 18.10.1917.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle per HT ‘Beltana’.
Discharged 16.11.1917.
Final Rank Private.
Medical Condition Invalided, wounded.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes Annakin married in Leeds in 1912. He divorced his wife on grounds of adultery whilst serving overseas (West Australian Newspaper 14.8.1920) and remarried . Four years later he married Kathleen  McGuffie, they had one child. Annakin died in 1960 age 76 years

Photo Richard Annakin. Photographer unknown. Image courtesy C. Hunt
          Railway Station at Albert 1917. Photographer unknown, image courtesy AWM H02112
          Stretcher bearers from the 4th Field Ambulance, bringing in the wounded at from the Albert Bapaume area of the Somme December 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E00049
          Annakin Wedding. Adelaide Audrey Annakin to Alfred Brand 1918 with Richard Annakin rear right row. Image courtesy C. Hunt
        
Information Source
AWM H02112. Railway Station at Albert 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australin War Memorial
AWM E00049. Stretcher bearers from the 4th Field Ambulance, bringing in the wounded at from the Albert Bapaume area of the Somme December 1916. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- Richard Edward Annakin
AWM Pictorial Collectionhttps://www.awm.gov.au/collection/H02112/
Guildford War Memorial
Image of wedding photo of Annakin family at wedding,1918, with Richard Annakin, courtesy C. Hunt.
NAA: B2455, Annakin R E
West Australian Newspaper
Wise, H. and Co. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

Railway Station, East Guildford, WA.
81 Swan Street, Guildford, WA.

 

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