Harold Detlef KAHLAND

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KAHLAND, Harold Detlef

Service Number:	4226
Enlisted:	12 July 1915, Bendigo, Vic.
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	6th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Gravel Hill State School, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Stonemason
Died:	Killed in Action, Broodseinde Ridge, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

World War 1 Service

12 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Bendigo, Vic.
29 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: ''
29 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Melbourne
23 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
14 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm
23 Jan 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 6th Infantry Battalion, France
15 Apr 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, The Outpost Villages - German Withdrawal to Hindenburg Line, Lagnicourt
11 May 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 6th Infantry Battalion, France
29 May 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 6th Infantry Battalion, France
20 Sep 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 6th Infantry Battalion, Belgium
20 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Menin Road
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement Sergeant, 4226, 6th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4226 awm_unit: 6th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1917-10-04

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Parents: Johann Detlef and Elizabeth Sarah KAHLAND, 169 King Street, Bendigo, Victoria

Cousins: 4190 Pte Leslie King FLY, 6th Bn, died of wounds, 10 August 1918; Corporal John Alan FLY MM, 6th Bn, returned to Australia, 12 May 1919.

KAHLAND.—Killed in action at Passchendaele, 4th October, 1917 (previously reported missing), No. 4226 Sergeant Harold D. Kahland, ever loving husband of Nellie, Station street, Box Hill (late of Bendigo), and father of little Jack. (Inserted by his sorrowing wife.)

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