LANDT, Joseph Thomas
| Service Number: | 5722 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Aubrey, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 6 February 1879 |
| Home Town: | Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Aubrey State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Warracknabeal War Memorial, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5722, 6th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 3 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 5722, 6th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ayrshire embarkation_ship_number: A33 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 5722, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ayrshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Joseph Thomas Landt (Service No:5722) enlisted in the AIF on 3 April 1916 and was attached to 6th Infantry Battalion when he embarked from Melbourne for Plymouth on 7 March 1916 on board HMAT Ayrshire A33. Private Landt was a Stretcher Bearer - alongside his brother Ernest - when he was KiA at Broodseinde in Belgium on 4 October 1917. SM Scoggins (AWM Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Files) reported 'I saw him killed near Ypres. He was caught through the head with a bullet, death being instantaneous. We had been attacking and had just reached our objective when the casualty happened. I knew him very well but I do not know place of burial and cannot refer to anyone for details'.
Born in Aubrey, Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1879, Tom was sixth of fifteen children of Johann (John) Landt (b1840 in Denmark) and Louise Turner (b1851 in Hamilton, Victoria). John was a Sailor (shipwrecked on numerous occasions) and in 1865 left his ship in QLD and worked in Railway Construction and as a Fisherman in Moreton Bay before making his way south, working in South Australia, then on Brung Brungle Station in Wannon before and moving to Hamilton in Victoria where he was a Brickmaker in 1970 when he and Louise married. In 1873 John and Louise moved to Rupanyup where John was a Selector before settling in Aubrey by 1979. John and Louise raised their family in Aubrey where John was a Farmer.
Tom worked as a Farmer/Labourer on the family property in Aubrey and in 1901 at Warracknabeal married Isabella (Bella) Ann Ross (b1883 in Melbourne, Victoria). Tom and Bella were married for a very short time before Tom left - Bella moved to Melbourne and Launceston, Tasmania where she worked as a Waitress, and in 1905 they were Divorced. Tom continued working as Farmer/Labourer before enlisting in the AIF.
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