SANDILANDS, Claude Fairfax
| Service Number: | 680 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 June 1885 |
| Home Town: | Stanmore, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Molesworth State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Tram Conductor |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 2 May 1915, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Molesworth State School Roll of Honor, Yea War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 680, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC), Enlisted at Randwick, NSW | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 680, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 680, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Frederick Sandilands of Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Claude Fairfax SANDILANDS (Service Number 680) was born in South Melbourne on 20th June 1885. He was the second son of Frederick E Sandilands, formerly of Yea (Victoria), and was educated at the Yea State School. In 1902 he was employed as a lift boy in a Little Collins Street buildin. Somehow he came into possession of a revolver. He ‘was showing the weapon to another lad, and, not knowing it was loaded, pulled the trigger with the result that the charge went through his left hand. He was taken to the Melbourne Hospital where after the wound had been dressed he was able to leave for his home’: Yea Chronicle, 24/4/1902. He went to Sydney where he joined the Tramways as a conductor in July 1910. In August 1914 he enlisted in the AIF at Randwick (and was officially released from duty by the Tramways the following month). He gave the name of his father in Victoria as his next of kin.
Allotted to the 2nd Battalion, he was embarked from Sydney in October 1914 and landed in Egypt in December. After training, he was embarked again at Alexandria in April 1915 for Gallipoli.
He was reported missing in action there on 2nd May 1915. A Court of Enquiry convened on board one of the transport ships in March 1916 determined that he must have been killed in action on the date he was reported missing.
He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial and was also included on the memorial unveiled in 1916 at the Rozelle Tramway Depot.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.