LANDT, Ernest Raymond
| Service Number: | 2642 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Aubrey, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 22 November 1892 |
| Home Town: | Warracknabeal, Yarriambiack, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Aubrey State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 7 November 1962, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Warracknabeal Public Cemetery, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 26 Aug 1915: | Involvement Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 26 Aug 1915: | Embarked Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne | |
| 27 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion, France: GSW arm | |
| 30 Jan 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Melbourne per HT A14 Euripides | |
| 2 May 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2642, 6th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ernest Raymond Landt (Service No:2642) served with 6th Infantry Battalion from 4 June 1915 to 2 May 1918. Private Landt embarked from Melbourne for Egypt on 26 August 1915 on board HMAT A68 Anchises. He served in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Western Front - and was a Stretcher Bearer near Ypres when his brother Tom (Privats, Service No:5722), also a Stretcher Bearer, was KiA. Private Landt was WiA in France on 27 October 1918 and evacuated to England. He embarked from England for Melbourne on 30 January 1918 on board HT A14 Euripides and was Discharged on 2 May 1918.
Born at Aubrey in Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1892, Peg was youngest of fifteen children of Johann (John) Landt (b1840 in Denmark) and Louise Turner (b1851 in Hamilton, Victoria). John was a Sailor (he had been shipwrecked on three occasions) and left his ship in QLD in 1865. He worked in Railway Construction and as a Fisherman in Moreton Bay, QLD before making his way south to Adelaide and then to Victoria where he worked on Brung Brungle Station before settling in Hamilton where he established a Brickworks. In 1870 in Hamilton John and Louise married and in 1873 moved to Rapunyup where John was a Settler. By 1879 the family had settled at Warracknabeal where John and Louise raised their family and John was a Farmer.
Peg worked as a Farmer in Aubrey, Warracknabeal before enlisting in the AIF. Following his Discharge, he returned to Aubrey and in 1924 married Millie Elizabeth Witney (b1904 in Jeparit, Victoria). Peg and Millie settled in Warracknabeal where they raised their family and Peg was a Farmer. Peg died in 1962 and Millie in 1995.
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