Hedley Elbert CULLEN

CULLEN, Hedley Elbert

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 1 December 1914, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Second Lieutenant
Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
Born: Terowie, South Australia, 8 August 1894
Home Town: Terowie, Goyder, South Australia
Schooling: Terowie Public School
Occupation: Merchant
Died: Died of Wounds (GSW abdomen), Gallipoli, Turkey, 10 August 1915, aged 21 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Terowie Institute Honour Board, Terowie Public School Honor Roll, Terowie War Memorial, Unley Arch of Remembrance, Unley Town Hall WW1 Honour Board
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Biography

Born 8 August 1894 Terowie, South Australia. (SA Birth Record  1842 - 1906 Book: 549 Page: 82 District: Bur.)

Father William CULLEN (b.25/8/1850 Fordwich, Kent England - d. 24/12/1934 ‎(Age 84)‎ Hawthorn SA)
m.6/5/1871 at Kooringa, South Australia
Mother Caroline Edith (nee RIGGS) b.3/5/1849 Bloxworth, Dorset, England - d. 2/10/1927 Hawthorn SA)
living at Victoria Terrace, Hawthorn, South Australia

1 of 13 children:
Sister    Caroline Eva Cullen b. 18/2/1872 & d. 7/9/1875 Kooringa, SA
Sister    Sarah Helen Cullen  b. 5/9/1873 Kooringa SA - d. 7/10/1927
Brother  William Andrew Cullen b. 6/4/1875 Kooringa SA - d. 26/11/1954
Brother  Wesley John Cullen b. 12/10/1876 Kooringa SA - d. 3/11/1947
Brother  Herbert Richard Cullen b. 8/11/1878 Kooringa SA - d. 22/10/1880
Brother  Bernard James Cullen b. 15/12/1880 Kooringa SA - d. 23/3/1962
Sister    Ivy Jane Cullen b. 25/1/1883 Terowie SA - d. 1958
Sister    Lillian Edith Cullen b. 2/3/1885 Terowie SA - d. 28/3/1965
Brother  Herbert Henry Cullen b.18/12/1886 Terowie SA - d. 16/10/1952
Sister    Rhonda Louise Cullen b. 23/1/1889 Frome SA - d. 1892 Terowie SA
Sister    Leslie Cullen b. 5/10/1890 - d. 1890 Terowie SA
Brother  Walter Cullen b. 1892 - d. 1892
HIMSELF  Hedley Elbert Cullen   b. 8/8/1894 - d. 10/8/1915

Next of kin in service:
3 cousins killed, 5 cousins returned

#184    Vernon Albert Walter RIGGS
#3888  Harold RIGGS

Previous service:
Four years - Senior Cadets - 74th Infantry
1 1/2 years as 2nd Lieutenant

Described on enlisting as 20 years; single; 6' tall; 12 stone; Protestant

 16/12/1914      Enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia

19/2/1915        Embarked from Port Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic 
                       as a 2nd Lieutenant with 3rd reinforcements, 10th Infantry Battalion

11/6/1915        Attached to 1st Line Transport, pending transfer, Gallipoli Peninsula 

detached for duty with mule car corps and reported seriously wounded, Gallipoli

9/8/1915          bullet wound in abdomen, received in action by a sniper

10/8/1915        died of wounds received in action - on board HS Dongala (21 years & 2 days old)
                       as a 2nd Lieutenant, 10th Infantry Battalion
buried:             At Sea
by:                   Chaplain T Rees

No known grave

His name is commemorated at Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 32), Gallipoli, Turkey.

He is also commemorated in the Terowie Cemetery, South Australia

Medals:
1914-15 Star (2943); British War medal (9482); Victory medal (9434);
Memorial Plaque and Memorial Scroll (355914)

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan.  8/4/2015.  Lest we forget.

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