WORLAND, Victor Oswald (1893-1962)
WORLAND, Victor Oswald (1893-1962)
Victor Oswald Worland was born on 28 October 1893 at Clarendon, the son of Walter Worland and Henrietta nee Parish. He was enrolled at Geelong College as a day student in 1908. His address was given as Morongo, Geelong.
During World War I, he enlisted (No. 242) as a private with 2 Field Ambulance on 18 August 1914, embarked on HMAT A35 Berrima on 22 December 1914, and served in Egypt and on Gallipoli. He was reported ill and hospitalised in Malta on 26 December 1915, being evacuated from the Peninsula by HS Soudan then transported to Alexandria on HS Essequito on 23 March 1916.
He returned to Australia by HS Kanowna, embarking from Suez on 11 May 1916. This was reported in Pegasus of August 1916:
'V O Worland, who has been attached to the Army Medical Corps and was at the Landing at Gallipoli, has been invalided home.'
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) Collection holds Worland's detailed diaries covering training in Egypt and service on hospital ships at Gallipoli and Lemnos, and sundry items including a concert programme and newspaper articles regarding the planting of forget-me-not flowers at Vimy Ridge.
He became a pharmacist after the war.
Vic Worland died on 19 December 1962.
His cousin, Pte Frederick Thomas Worland of Meredith, enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915 with 5 Battalion. He was killed in action on 25 July 1916 at Pozieres, France; he has no known grave, and his name is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Victor Oswald Worland was born on 28 October 1893 at Clarendon, the son of Walter Worland and Henrietta nee Parish. He was enrolled at Geelong College as a day student in 1908. His address was given as Morongo, Geelong.
During World War I, he enlisted (No. 242) as a private with 2 Field Ambulance on 18 August 1914, embarked on HMAT A35 Berrima on 22 December 1914, and served in Egypt and on Gallipoli. He was reported ill and hospitalised in Malta on 26 December 1915, being evacuated from the Peninsula by HS Soudan then transported to Alexandria on HS Essequito on 23 March 1916.
He returned to Australia by HS Kanowna, embarking from Suez on 11 May 1916. This was reported in Pegasus of August 1916:
'V O Worland, who has been attached to the Army Medical Corps and was at the Landing at Gallipoli, has been invalided home.'
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) Collection holds Worland's detailed diaries covering training in Egypt and service on hospital ships at Gallipoli and Lemnos, and sundry items including a concert programme and newspaper articles regarding the planting of forget-me-not flowers at Vimy Ridge.
He became a pharmacist after the war.
Vic Worland died on 19 December 1962.
His cousin, Pte Frederick Thomas Worland of Meredith, enlisted on 15 July 1915 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ceramic on 23 November 1915 with 5 Battalion. He was killed in action on 25 July 1916 at Pozieres, France; he has no known grave, and his name is commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, France.
Source
Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. pp340-341 (citing The Pegasus; National Archives).