General Rupert Carl
Wertheim
Male
Australia
1893-12-22
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1933-10-11
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


About

From a former website on the Wertheim family

Enlisting on 16 June 1915 as a private with the 23rd Battalion A.I.F, Rupert Wertheim arrived at Gallipoli just over a month before the end of that fatal campaign before transferring to the 2nd Pioneer Battalion as 2nd lieutenant on 19 March 1916 and took part in the unit’s operations at Pozières in July-August, where it lost 202 casualties, and at Flers in November.

In January 1917, he was seconded for duty with the Intelligence Corps and posted to the 2nd Australian Divisional Headquarters. He figured prominently in operations during 1917, in particular Menin Road in September when steps were taken to prepare for the inevitable German counter-attack. Historian C.E.W. Bean wrote: “To obtain early news of it [the counter-attack], German prisoners as they arrived were taken to forward centres for interrogation, and by 7 a.m. Captain Wertheim learned from one of them that the counter-attack division for that sector lay at Moorslede and Waterdamhoek, and would probably come up in omnibuses and debouch about 9 or 10 a.m. from the north of Polygon Wood.”

Largely for the important role he played in the campaign by providing this vital information of the planned counter-attack, Wertheim had the privilege of being mentioned in the personal despatches of the commander-in-chief of the British Army, Sir Douglas Haig on 7 November 1917. In March 1918, three months after the five Australian Divisions were finally unified into an Australian Corps, Wertheim was transferred to Corps Headquarters and took part in the great advances of that year. Three times mentioned in despatches, he returned to Australia in February 1919.

In civilian life, Wertheim co-founded with Clive Williams a stock and share brokerage firm of Williams & Wertheim (Collins Street, Melbourne) and continued to play tennis until in 1929 he was struck with a debilitating illness that left him bed stricken for two years. Eighteen months before his death he defied doctor’s orders and went about his business affairs until he suddenly collapsed in the city and died at Mount Saint Evin’s Hospital, East Melbourne, on 11 October 1933 aged 39 survived by his wife Marjorie (née Felsted) and three sons.



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Archive statistics 1905 - 1929
2
148
93


Tournament wins 1922 - Riviera Championships (Amateur)
1919 - Geelong Easter Tournament (Amateur)


Tournaments Australian Open - 1929 Australian Open - 1928 Victorian Championships - 1928 Royal South Yarra - 1928 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1928 Australian Open - 1927 South Australian Championships - 1927 Victorian Championships - 1927 City of Sydney Championships - 1927 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1927 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1927 Australian Open - 1926 Victorian Championships - 1926 New South Wales Championships - 1926 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1926 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1926 Australian Open - 1925 Victorian Championships - 1925 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1925 Australian Open - 1924 Victorian Championships - 1924 New South Wales Championships - 1924 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1924 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1924 Victorian Championships - 1923 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1923 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1923 Australian Open - 1922 Wimbledon - 1922 Monte Carlo - 1922 US Open - 1922 Victorian Championships - 1922 Beaulieu - 1922 Riviera Championships - 1922 Menton - 1922 Wimbledon Plate (Consolation) - 1922 Cannes Carlton Winter Tournament - 1922 Victorian Championships - 1921 New South Wales Championships - 1921 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1921 Victorian Championships - 1920 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1920 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1920 Victorian Championships - 1919 Geelong Easter Tournament - 1919 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1919 Australian Open - 1914 Victorian Championships - 1914 South Australian Championships - 1913 Victorian Championships - 1913 Bendigo Easter Tournament - 1913 Victorian Championships - 1912 Metropolitan Cricket (MCC ) Autumn Tournament - 1912 Australian Open - 1911 Victorian Championships - 1911 New Zealand Championships - 1911 Swiss International Championships - 1905

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