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Unit |
3rd Field
Company, Australian Engineers |
Rank |
Sapper |
|
Date of Enlistment |
14
September 1914 |
Service no. |
152 |
|
Date of Death |
24 July 1915 |
Place of Death |
Anzac
Beach, from a fractured skull, caused by shrapnel, received
in action on 24 July |
|
Age |
23 |
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|
Cemetery |
Beach |
Details |
II. C. 3 |
|
Epitaph |
Lead
kindly light. Lead thou me on |
|
Next of Kin |
(Mother)
ANDERSON J F C |
Address |
4 Yarra
St, South Yarra VIC |
|
Parents |
John
Fortesque and Florence Emily Anderson |
Address |
4 Yarra
St, South Yarra VIC |
|
Date of Birth |
13 June
1892 |
Place of birth |
VIC
Melbourne |
|
General |
He was detailed on 24 July 1915 with
several other men for fatigue duty. This consisted of conveying water
from the beach. He was left to guard water-cans until evening but
whilst there was killed outright by a shell. He was buried in a single
grave with a cross just above Royal Engineers Store on the Anzac Beach.
Several other members of the same company were buried alongside.
Source: Army service papers (Series
B2455), National Archives of Australia (source 8) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
 |
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- The Argus
newspaper, 17 August 1915, page 5 (source 42)
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Photo |
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The Australasian newspaper, 28 August 1915, page iii
(source 31) |
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Photo |
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All-Australia Memorial: a historical record of national effort
during the Great War: Australia's roll of honour: history,
heroes and helpers, page 41 (source 81) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus
Newspaper, 12 August 1915, page 1 (source 42) |
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Family details |
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Spirits of
Gallipoli |
 |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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|
All-Australia Memorial: a historical record of national effort
during the Great War: Australia's roll of honour: history,
heroes and helpers, page 41 (source 81) |
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Various |
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1DRL/0038, Australian War Memorial collection (source 7) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 23 (source 14) |
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