Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Lance Corporal Henry William Ladhams (Service No:W86000) served in the ACMF with 14th Battalion (WA) VDC from 5 May 1942 to 31 July 1944 (Reserves List). Brothers Alf and John also served in WWII.

Ted was born in Manjimup, Western Australia in 1915, seventh of eight children of John Henry Ladhams (b1882 in Payneham, South Australia) and Violet (Althea) Bevetta Althea Chapman (b1885 at Little Hampton, South Australia). John and Althea married in 1905 in York WA - John was a Gunner attached to The Forts Albany when he deserted, leaving his clothes on the rocks in Albany to give the impression he drowned. Arrested in York in 1905, John was returned to Albany under military escort (Trove; 1905). Althea and their infant son followed him to Albany, and by 1908 the family was living in Bridgetown, where John worked as a Brickmaker. By the early 1920s John and Althea had settled with their family at Northcliffe in Pemberton, where John was a Settler/Dairy Farmer until his death in 1935.

Ted started work in the 1930s as a Labourer in Northcliffe, and in 1942 was a Dairy Farmer. In the mid 1940s Ted worked at Nyamup as a Tractor Driver before settling at Tone River via Manjimup in the late 1950s - he worked as a Tractor Driver and Mill Hand at the Tone River Mill. Ted died in 2001.