MCCULLOCH, Henry
| Service Number: | 263 |
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| Enlisted: | 9 September 1914, An original member of Machine Gun Section |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1875 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 3 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 263, 11th Infantry Battalion, An original member of Machine Gun Section | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 263, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 263, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 20 May 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 18 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Henry McCulloch was almost 40 years of age when he enlisted at Helena Vale, Western Australia. He had been born in Melbourne, Victoria. He was an old man for an original Anzac, but he was well built, six feet in height and weighed almost 13 stone. He had served in the Permanent Artillery at Queenscliff, Victoria for many years before he moved west. He was with the original 11th Battalion, in the Machine Gun Section. He gave his next of kin as his sister, Margaret McCulloch, in Glenferrie, Victoria.
He served at the Anzac landing with the 11th Battalion and survived unscathed until he was evacuated with debility in October 1915. He was taken by ship to hospital in Heliopolis, Egypt where he was listed as dangerously ill with gastritis a few weeks later. When he recovered, he freely took part in the fun the Australians had in their last days in Egypt, getting in to strife for being drunk in town and several AWOL events. He was transferred to the 51st Battalion just before they left Egypt for the Western front.
As a Gallipoli veteran he was promoted to Lance Corporal about a fortnight before the 51st Battalion played a major part in the heavy fighting which occurred at Mouquet Farm on 3 September 1916. Henry was reported missing after the battle, then reported a prisoner of war in Germany, then much later (October 1917) he was officially declared as killed in action. His remains were lost.
His medals were sent to his older brother, Richard McCulloch, in South Australia.