HADDOW, David Eastwood Sydney
| Service Number: | 632 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia, 30 December 1891 |
| Home Town: | Eastwood, Ryde, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Pitman (Tramway Dept) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 2 May 1915, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Eastwood War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 632, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 632, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 632, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 2 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 632, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
David Eastwood Sydney HADDOW, (Service Number 632) was born at the end of December in 1891, at Eastwood in Sydney. Just after his 17th birthday in 1909 Haddow began work as a cleaner in the Electric Tram Depot in Dowling Street, and relocated in the same role to Enfield three years later. He only stayed at Enfield for a year before he took up a position as a laborer(sic) in Sydney. In his enlistment papers he refines this role to that of being a ‘pitman’.
Immediately the war was declared he sought release from his Tramway duties to join the Expeditionary Forces. He left Sydney on HMAT A23 ‘Suffolk’ on 18 October 1914 and after further training in Egypt was carried to the Gallipoli campaign on the troopship ‘Derfflinger’.
Submitted 15 August 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
David Eastwood Sydney HADDOW was born in Eastwood, Sydney on 30th December, 1891
His parents were Charles HADDOW & Elizabeth STONE who married in New Zealand in 1879
Biography contributed by John Oakes
David Eastwood Sydney HADDOW (Service Number 632) was born at the end of December in 1891, at Eastwood in Sydney. Just after his 17th birthday in 1909 Haddow began work as a cleaner in the Electric Tram Depot in Dowling Stree. He was relocated in the same role to Enfield three years later. He only stayed at Enfield for a year before he took up a position as a labourer in Sydney. In his enlistment papers he refines this role to that of being a ‘pitman’.
Immediately after the war was declared he sought release from his Tramway duties to join the Expeditionary Forces. He left Sydney on HMAT A23 ‘Suffolk’ on 18th October 1914 and after further training in Egypt was carried to the Gallipoli campaign on the troopship ‘Derfflinger’.
He was reported missing at Gallipoli on 2nd May 1915, and formally declared to be dead by a Court of Enquiry held on board HMT Z23 on 24th March 1916 – eleven months later. The AIF authorities tried to find any information they could to determine the fate of soldiers and identify remains, so that, ‘if at all possible’, they could ‘obviate the necessity of interring them in the New Military Cemeteries under the heading “An Unknown Australian Soldier”.’
Haddow’s father Charles had sought out returning Gallipoli survivors and advised the department that a soldier had recounted that ‘he, with my dear beloved son and 15 or 17 others was told for a certain place and eleven hours after landing at Gallipoli was blown to pieces as no living soul could stand the firing & shells bursting amongst them and only two managed to survive….’
Since there is no grave, Haddow is memorialised at the Lone Pine Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
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