Dalby Dennis

Private 6235, 10th Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF — died of wounds 19 August 1918, aged 20, on the Western Front. Buried St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.

Lifespan

Born: 1 October 1897 — Arwakarra / White Cliffs, South Australia (Booleroo Centre district)
Died: 19 August 1918 (aged 20) — died of wounds, France
Buried: St Sever Cemetery Extension, Block Q, Plot IV, Row K, Grave 17, Rouen, France

Family

• Father: Thomas Dennis (1862–1914)
• Mother: Dinah Flavel Paynter (1869–1958)

Life Summary

Dalby Cecil Dennis was born on 1 October 1897 in the Booleroo Centre district of South Australia, one of the children of Thomas Dennis and Dinah Flavel Paynter. A Methodist labourer from Booleroo Centre, single, he enlisted at Adelaide on 17 June 1916 — just eighteen — and embarked from Adelaide on board HMAT A68 Anchises on 28 August 1916 with the 10th Battalion's 20th Reinforcement. He reached the Western Front and was wounded; he died of his wounds on 19 August 1918, aged twenty, three months short of the Armistice. He lies at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Block Q, Plot IV, Row K, Grave 17. His next of kin were recorded as his mother, Mrs D. F. Dennis, of Arwakurra via Booleroo Centre. His name appears on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, panel 58.

Timeline

Family Stories

🖊️ Anecdote — as told in A Telfer Family Tree (Supplement 2008), p.116:

The boy from Booleroo who never came home. A labourer from Booleroo Centre, Methodist, single, Dalby Dennis enlisted at Adelaide in June 1916 at just eighteen. He embarked on the Anchises that August with the 10th Battalion's 20th Reinforcement and reached the Western Front, where he died of wounds on 19 August 1918, aged twenty — three months short of the Armistice. He lies at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Block Q, Plot IV, Row K, Grave 17.

(Anecdote only — family colour. The service facts above rest on the sources below.)

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