SANDILANDS, John Graham
| Service Number: | 1227 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 12th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Tallygaroopna, Victoria, Australia , 1881 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 June 1958, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Box Hill General Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1227, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 1 Oct 1915: | Involvement 1227, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Oct 1915: | Embarked 1227, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hororata, Fremantle | |
| 16 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 1227, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board HMAT Haverford | |
| 15 Jun 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 12th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 1227, 12th Field Artillery Brigade , embarked England for Melbourne on board D19 HT Carpentaria | |
| 19 Oct 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 1227, 12th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Gunner John Graham Sandilands (Service No:1227) enlisted in the AIF at Blackboy Hill on 7 July 1915, initially as a Private, then promoted to Corporal, with 10th Light Horse Regiment. Corporal Sandilands embarked with his Unit from Fremantle WA for the Middle East on 1 October 1915 on board HMAT A20 Honorata. Mustered as Gunner (7 April 1916), he served with 4th Divisional Artillery Column and 3rd Light Horse Regiment at Serapeum, Heliopolis, Heloum, Alexandria and Ras-el-tin. Gunner Sandilands embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on 16 April 1916 on board HMAT Haverford. Gunner Sandilands served in France and Belgium with 12th Field Artillery Brigade, spending several periods in hospital in England with complications from scarring from an appendectomy done in Egypt. Gunner Sandilands embarked from England for Melbourne on 8 August 1918 on board HT D19 Carpentaria and was attached to 12th Field Artillery Brigade at Discharge on 19 October 1918.
Gunner Sandilands had served in the Boer War (Private; Service No:152) with 2nd Victorian Rifles, and served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V5524) with 7 Auxiliary Horse Transport Corps in WWII.
Jack was born in Tallygaroopna via Shaepparton, Victoria in 1881, eleventh of eighteen children of Henry George Sandilands (b1837 in Middlesex, England) and Lucy Hicks (b1847 in Bulleen, Victoria). Henry immigrated with his parents and siblings in the early 1840s, and was a Labourer when he and Lucy married in 1864 in Melbourne, Victoria. They lived at Templestowe in Melbourne, where Henry was a Labourer, before settling in Tallygaroopna via Shepparton in the late 1880s. Henry was a Farmer.
Jack worked as a Farm Hand for his father before serving in the Boer War, and in 1910 in Melbourne, he married Louisa Amelai Schwerkolt (b1890 in Mitcham, Melbourne, Victoria). By 1912 Jack and Louisa had moved to Western Australia - living in Wagin initially, where Jack worked as a Farm Hand, then in Fremantle wher he worked as a Labourer. He and Louisa were in Perth by 1914, and Jack worked as a Storekeeper and Machinery Agent and as a Fitter. Following his Discharge, Jack and Louisa lived in Melbourne, where Jack was a Storekeeper and Tramways Employee. Following successful application for land under the 1915 Land Act, Jack and Louisa settled at Barwidgee via Myrtleford, where Jack was a Dairy Farmer. By 1929 Jack and Louisa had left the farm and were living in Shepparton, where Jack was a Labourer. They moved to Melbourne in the early 1940s and Jack worked as a Labourer until the early 1950s. Jack died in 1958 and Louisa in 1966.
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