Member of the Darwin Rifle club and Cable Guard in 1913. Won a bangle in the Ladies Gold Bangle Nomination Shoot. Married Gertude May Wiltshire on 3 September 1921 and had three children: Joan, John and Elizabeth. His father, William James Whiteford, worked on the railway in the Northern Territory. His siblings were Harold, Darwin and William, and sister, Lill.,
History
Unit embarked from Melbourne on board HMAT A11 'Ascanius' on 25 May 1916. Whiteford was promoted to T/2/Cpl 3 July 1918; reverted to L/Cpl. 30 July 1918. Awarded Military Medal 16 July 1918. Returned to Australia on 26 June1919 at Adelaide per 'Wahehe'.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8386060&I=1&SE=1,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/22/13/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1551219/,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067435/RCDIG1067435--402-.JPG,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/14313403,
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3273962,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1068540--33-.PDF,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1068540--33-.PDF [Honours and Awards],
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8386060&I=1&SE=1 [Service Record],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/AWM4/22/13/ [Unit War Diary],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1551219/ [Nominal Roll],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/14313403 [ The Royal Australian Corps of Signals : corps history. Vol. 1, 1906-1918 featuring the story of the Australian Signal Engineers in the 1914-1918 by J.H. Thyer. Australia : The Author, 1974?],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067435/RCDIG1067435--402-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - HMAT A11 'Ascanius'],
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3273962 ["Darwin Rifle Club", Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 23 October 1913: p.8.],