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Unit |
12th Battalion,
G Company |
Rank |
Captain |
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Date of Enlistment |
26 August
1914 |
Service no. |
- |
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Date of Death |
25 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
The Nek |
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Age |
30 |
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Cemetery |
Baby 700 |
Details |
Special Memorial
4 |
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Epitaph |
Dulce et
decorum est pro patria mori. Lord Thou Knowest Best.
(Translation: It is sweet and proper to die for one’s
country) |
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Next of Kin |
(Wife)
LALOR Hester |
Address |
Elgin St,
Hawthorn VIC |
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Parents |
Joseph
Peter and Agnes Lalor |
Address |
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Date of Birth |
5
September 1884 (from Lalor's Attestation papers) |
Place of birth |
VIC
Richmond |
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General |
"One destroyer landed
its tows yet further north, in the same enclosed semi-circle, but near
to the foot of Walker's Ridge. These carried half a company of the 11th
under Captain Tulloch and some of Captain Lalor's company of the
12th under lieutenant E. Y. Butler. A machine-gun on some height beyond
Walker's Ridge was playing on them."
BEAN, C E W,
The Official
History of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, The Story of Anzac,
volume 1, 11th edition, page 270 - 271, Landing a Gaba Tepe, 25 April
1915 (source 1)
"Lalor was by
nature the last officer in the force to sit still and do nothing in so
critical a fight. The grandson of Peter Lalor, who led the only
armed revolt that ever occurred in Australian history - the insurrection
at Eureka Stockade on the Victorian goldfields - and the son of a
doctor, he enlisted as a boy in the British Navy; deserted from that
service; joined the French Foreign Legion; fought through a South
American revolution; and finally was appointed to the permanent forces
in Australia. As an aide-de-camp in Western Australia he had more than
one interesting meeting with naval officers, who little dreamed of his
story. He carried with intense pride a family sword, from which he
would not be parted. He had it with him - in spite of all regulations -
on this morning at The Nek, its bright hilt wrapped in khaki cloth."
BEAN, C E W,
The Official
History of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, The Story of Anzac,
volume 1, 11th edition, page 291, Baby 700, 25 April 1915 (source 1)
"Morshead made his
platoon left form and move across to Lalor's left. Lalor
waved his hand, and moved his own line to join Morshead's. Fire was
coming from the lower knolls down by the beach. Lalor stood up
to see, and resolved to charge forward.
"Now then, 12th
Battalion," he cried; and, as he said the words, a Turkish bullet killed
him."
BEAN, C E W,
The Official
History of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, The Story of Anzac,
volume 1, 11th edition, page 309, The Loss of Baby 700, 25 April 1915
(source 1) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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ANZAC Epitaphs (source 10) |
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Photo |
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ANZAC Epitaphs (source 10) |
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Photo |
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Anzac Memorial - 1917, page 257 (source 3) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Mail Newspaper, 2 June 1915, page 18
(source 15) |
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Photo |
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The Age Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 10 (source 44) |
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Photo |
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The Argus Newspaper, 7 May 1915, page 8 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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The Western Mail Newspaper, 14 May 1915, page 24
(source 52) |
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Photo |
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The Western Mail Newspaper, 31 December 1915, page 18
(source 52) |
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Photo |
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The Australasian Newspaper, 15 May 1915, page vi
(source 31) |
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Photo |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 5
(source 95) |
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Photo |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 18 August 1915, page 1
(source 95) |
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Photo |
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The Sunday Times Newspaper, 9 May 1915, page 3
(source 35) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Adelaide Advertiser Newspaper, 7 May 1915, page 7 (source
47) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 1
(source 95) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Melbourne Herald Newspaper, 18 August 1915, page 1
(source 95) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Register Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
103) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus Newspaper,
6 May 1915, page 8 (source
42) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Sunday Times Newspaper, 9 May 1915, page 3 (source
35) |
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Newspaper article |
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The West
Australian Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
34) |
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Newspaper article |
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The West
Australian Newspaper, 6 May 1915, page 8 (source
34) |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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ANZAC Epitaphs
(source 10) |
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Notes |
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WALKER, R W, To what end did they die? Officers died at
Gallipoli, page 149
(source 127) |
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Notes |
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QUINLIVIAN, Peter, Forgotten Valour: the story of Arthur
Sullivan VC, page 32
(source 144) |
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Notes |
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DANDO-COLLINS, Stephen, Crack Hardy. From Gallipoli to
Flanders to the Somme, the true story of three Australian
brothers at war, page 110
(source 318) |
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Various |
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Perth War Memorial, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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Perth War Memorial, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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Perth War Memorial, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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Perth War Memorial, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 66 (source 14) |
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