Biographical Details:

Bartholomew John Moran was born to John and Agnes Moran in Queanbeyan NSW in 1889.
It is not known when Bartholomew moved to WA but at enlistment he was living in a suburb of Perth.  He gave his employment as Blacksmith’s Striker. Bartholomew had married Lucy Lavan Sherlock in 1913. They had a daughter Lucy who was born in 1914.
Bartholomew was part of the 7th Reinforcement of the 28th Battalion.  After training in WA and Egypt he was finally taken on strength in Ismailia in March 1916, just five days before being transferred to France.
On the June Trench Raid, Bartholomew was one of Lt Arnold Brown’s Bomb Throwers who were part of the Right Bombing Party.  He was also one of the raiders who were court martialled for Failing to Parade at Victoria Station at the end of their London Special Leave.  He was awarded 14 days Field Punishment No. 2.
Bartholomew survived several battles without receiving a wound but was hospitalised twice - on the first occasion with a Sebaceous Cyst and on the second with Syphilis, perhaps contracted during the Special Leave to England a few weeks earlier.
In March 1917 Bartholomew was promoted Corporal and in September made Temporary Sergeant.  He was killed in action at Menin Gate just three weeks later.
Bartholomew’s body was not recovered and his name appears on Panel 23 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium and the Australian War Memorial.
Bartholomew’s Service Medals and the Memorial Scroll and Plaque were presented to his wife.  In 1927 she remarried.

        The charge sheet for Bartholomew Moran's court martial