May2015_DAYBORO DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Est. 2004
Dayboro Day Festival
By the time you get to read this edition of the Dayboro Grapevine the annual Dayboro Rodeo will be a thing of the past and the 24th Dayboro Day Festival will be almost upon us. This year our Society’s display will be set up in “Dayboro Cottage” where we run the Dayboro Information Centre instead of the Council building attached to ECU Australia.
Once again we would be pleased if descendants of our early pioneering families would join us in the Street Parade to wave their family flag and let all the people know how proud they are of their local heritage. If you do intend joining us, please let me know so your details can be given to the parade announcers. We also invite descendants of our pioneering families to join us after the parade for a cuppa and a chat, this year in the front yard of “Dayboro Cottage”.
Our Gallipoli Connections:
Following on from last month’s article regarding two soldiers with local connections, Frederick Arthur Bond and Thomas Joseph Brundrit, who served on the Gallipoli peninsula, research has revealed that there were another two soldiers with local connections who also served there.
Carl William Albert Buhmann aka Charles Bowman
Carl was born at Mt. Pleasant on 29 June 1885, the third child of Conrad Johan Frederick Buhmann and Christina Maria Augusta Leffer. He enlisted on 19 November 1914 at Enoggera under the name of Charles Bowman. He was 29 years of age, gave his occupation as stockman, and named his sister Hilda Heathwood, wife of Albert Heathwood, as his next of kin. It is believed he was living in the Woodford area at the time as his name appears on the Honour Board in the Woodford Community Hall. He embarked for Egypt on 15 December 1914 and after completing his training became a driver for the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, “A” Squadron. The 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance landed at Anzac Cove on 20 May 1915 but Charles Bowman’s name does not appear on the Nominal Roll of men embarking at the time so he must have arrived with later reinforcements. Information provided by family for the publication Queenslanders Who Fought in the Great War records that he trained in Egypt, left for Gallipoli with his unit and was there until the Unit evacuated, which was on 23 Dec 1915. He had been promoted to Lance Corporal on 9 June 1915. He served in the Middle East (Egypt, Sinai and Palestine) and returned to Australia on 15 November 1918. He did not marry and died in 1968. The Queensland BDM Index lists his death under the name of Carl William Albert Brown.
John Henry Castree
John was born in Blackall on 2 November 1890 to parents John Edward Castree and Clara Nowland. Clara’s sister Laura married Alfred Augustus Warland who was the licensee of the Crown Hotel for a number of years. Their daughter, Ethel Laurie Warland, married Joseph Terence Cruice in 1908. John was 28 years old and working as a wheelwright at Terrors Creek when he enlisted on 24 May 1915. He embarked from Brisbane on 16 August 1915 arriving at Alexandria on 18 October 1915 where he joined the 15th Infantry Battalion. On 31 October 1915 he embarked for Anzac Cove arriving on 2 November 1915. His Unit evacuated on 13 December 1915. On 1 June 1916 he left for Marseilles, France. The Battalion was involved in the battle of Mouquet Farm, Pozieres and on 1 September 1916 John was reported missing in action. A court of enquiry was advised that the Canadians had found his body near Mouquet Farm and buried him. He is remembered with honour at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.
John’s brother, Claude Edward Castree, also enlisted and was with the 49th Battalion. He was with the 13th Field Ambulance in the Somme, France and died of wounds on 15 August 1918. Their cousins, Alfred Augustus Warland and Arthur Irvine Warland, also enlisted and both returned home safely.
Carmel Bond, President
Ph: 3425 1717 (h) or 3425 2032 (Dayboro Cottage)
