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SPARGO Lieutenant Edwin Bennett F Company, 6th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Born 16th August 1888 at Brunswick, Victoria [Birth certificate: 1888 27093 Brunswick Vic] Educated: Melbourne Church of England Grammar School Single; Clerk, of 'Llanfygne', 173 Tooroonga Road, East Malvern, Melbourne Victoria Next of Kin listed as: Father; Henry James Spargo. Mother; Jessie Ann Spargo (nee Trenoweth), of 'Llanfygne', 173 Tooroonga Road, East Malvern, Melbourne Victoria Photos of Lieutenant Spargo are known to exist in the following locations: Austin p110. Osboldstone Vic. Vol. War Services of Old Melburnians 1914-18 p145. Melbourne Punch 10 Sept 1914 p463 & 18 Mar 1915 p377 & 6 May 1915 p631. Melbourne Herald 1 May 1915 p1. Argus 3 May 1915 p8. Melbourne Age 3 May 1915 p9. Sydney Mail 5 May 1915 p12 & 12 May 1915 p13* Table Talk 6 May 1915 p3.*

Previously Lieutenant, 63rd (East Melbourne) Infantry.

Listed in an early casualty list as 'Severely wounded.' (Sydney Town & Country Journal 5 May 1915 p13) & (Melbourne Herald 1 May 1915 p1).

'Lieut. Spargo Improving.
Mr James H. Spargo, of Tooronga Road, Malvern, has received a cable message from his son, Lieutenant E.B. Spargo, who was severely wounded in the Dardanelles fighting. The young soldier stated that he was 'getting along famously.' The Defence Department also has informed Mr Spargo that his son is making satisfactory progress.' (Melbourne Herald 4 May 1915 p10).

Killed in the attack on German Officers' Trench from Steele's Post, 7th August:
'Men began to be hit at once, some of them before they had left the recesses. Captain Prisk, squeezing past one or two men who were blocking a recess, pushed his way to the surface, where, about the width of a tennis court away, a line of rifles was blazing like a fire along the whole front of German Officers' Trench. He was at once hit through both arms. Lieutenant Hall was wounded. Lieutenant Spargo is said to have reached or approached the enemy's trench; he was never seen again.' (Bean Volume 2 p603) (Diagram Bean Volume 2 p601).

'It was later estimated that 63 men had reached the objective and had entered German Officers' Trench, as their bodies were not recovered from No Mans' Land.' (Austin p115).

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