John GARDEN

GARDEN, John

Service Number: 303
Enlisted: 22 August 1914
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 11th Infantry Battalion
Born: Cowie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 21 March 1891
Home Town: Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Saddler
Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 24 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Panel 33., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bunbury Roll of Honour, Geraldton Gallipoli Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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World War 1 Service

22 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 303, 11th Infantry Battalion
2 Nov 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 303, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 303, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed in Action at the Landing - buried in the field. Grave lost

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Biography contributed by Jim Allan

John was shot during the landing on the first day. The Rev. McVea notified the O.C. that he had buried Garden, together with a number of others, in Shrapnel Gully.

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

He is remembered on the  Stonehaven and Dunnotar war memorial