HENDERSON, John Stewart
| Service Number: | 580 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 May 1915, A Company |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 26th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Picola, Victoria, Australia, March 1891 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowoomba Grammar School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 580, 26th Infantry Battalion, A Company | |
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| 24 May 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 580, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 24 May 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 580, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Brisbane | |
| 29 Jul 1916: | Involvement 580, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 580 awm_unit: 26th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-07-29 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Brothers (twins)
HENDERSON, Pte. Roy Douglas, 575. 26th Bn. Australian Inf. Killed in action 29th July, 1916. Age 18. (Same day)
HENDERSON, Pte, Erle Hamilton, 4797. 9th Bn. Killed in action 20th September, 1917. Age 19.
3rd brother 2828 Pte Arthur Thomas HENDERSON, 9th Battalion AIF, returned to Australia, 25 April 1918. (family reasons)
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Frank Mathieu, Belgium
JOHN STEWART (Stueart) HENDERSON, the eldest of the brothers, was born at about 1891 at Picola, Victoria. The parents didn’t stay at Victoria. During the years they lived at several places as a result of their father’s professional banking career. John had his education at Toowoomba Grammar School in Queensland. When enlisting in Brisbane on 18 May 1915, he was single, aged 24, and he lived at Lucinda Street, Taringa, Queensland. His parents then worked at the Queensland Bank, Brisbane. John’s occupation was clerk. John was on completion of 3 years of service with the Morton Regiment. He stood 5 ft 5,5 ins tall (1m 66), had a weight of 144,5 lbs (65,5kg), a fair complexion, blue eyes and dark hair, service number 580.
His service record, for whatever reason, bears the name of John Scott Henderson, but all documents in there refer to his original name. As to his first name both Stueart and Stewart appear in his record, and sometimes reversed as 'S. J.
John was posted to A Coy of 26th Bn (7th Brigade, 2nd Division AIF) and so was his younger brother Roy.
Their unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 24 May 1915, sailing to Alexandria, proceeding to Gallipoli joining the MEF on 4 Sept 1915. John became Lance Corporal on 11 August 1915 and was promoted Corporal 8 Sept. 1915. On 11 December he was promoted to (temporary) Lance Serjeant.
On 9 Jan. 1916 from Gallipoli, via Mudros, he sailed back to Alexandria, and from there to France joining the BEF., disembarking at Marseille on 21 March 1916. The Service record has no real extra information apart from is death on July 29th 1916 at Pozières, Somme, France. (for some reason, very obviously by error, Borre British Cemetery (Hazebrouck) is mentioned as burial place on a document in John’s Service record. This place however is too far away from Poziéres).
Lost on the same day/Battle Pte. Roy Douglas HENDERSON, #575. 26th Bn, 29th July, 1916
Lost at the Battle of Menin Road, Pte Erle Hamilton HENDERSON, #4797, 9th Bn, 20/9/1917.
Survived WWI: Pte Arthur Thomas HENDERSON, #2828, 9th Battalion
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