Some of the men who served in AN & MEF

Admiral Sir George Edwin Patey

Royal Navy, HMAS Australia 1912-1924, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF); Admiral Sir George Edwin Patey, KCMG, KCVO, Commander of Australian Fleet; German, North Atlantic, West Indies

294 Able Seaman (AB) William G V Williams

294 Able Seaman (AB) William G V Williams, HMAS Una, RAN. The first recorded Australian casualty of the First World War. 

AB Williams died on 11 September 1914 on HMAT Berrima, after receiving wounds from German sniper fire during the seizure of a German wireless station at Rabaul, New Britain. 

Born in Richmond, Vic, on 24 November 1885, Williams was a Melbourne City Council employee prior to his enlistment in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF).

Able Seaman Richard Horne

Royal Australian Navy, HMAS 1913-1928, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF); Able Seaman Richard Horne, RAN; German, Cocos-Keeling Islands (against SMS Emden)

1920; 4th Australian Division, formerly also Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF); Major General William Holmes, CMG, DSO, VD, Commanding 4 Div AIF, died of wounds 1917; German, Western Front, also (Boer) War (DSO and MID)

Colonel Frederick Arthur Maguire, DSO,

Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), 9th Field Ambulance, 3rd Australian Division; Colonel Frederick Arthur Maguire, DSO, Assistant Director Medical Services 3 Div AIF; Germany, Western Front

Capt Pockley was killed in action on Bita Paka Road near Kabakaul, 11 September 1914; the first Australian officer to be killed in the First World War. 

After they encountered German soldiers on Bita Paka Road, Able Seaman William Williams was shot in the stomach and Pockley had given his red cross armband to another naval serviceman, Stoker Kember, to carry Williams to the rear. This was done to protect the transporting of the wounded Williams; Pockley was shot shortly after.

Pockley and Williams were taken back to HMAS Berrima, one of the ships that had carried the Australian force to Rabaul and they both died on board that afternoon. 

Six Australians were killed and four wounded in the battle of Bita Paka. "Pockley's action in giving up his red cross badge, and thus protecting another man's life at the price of his own, was consistent with the best traditions of the Australian Army, and afforded a noble foundation for those of Australian Army Medical Corps in the war," wrote author S. S. Mackenzie in the official history, The Australians at Rabaul.