Albert Edward LADD

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Service Number:	1071
Enlisted:	1 August 1915, Claremont, Tasmania
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Maryborough, Victoria, Australia, January 1886
Home Town:	Mandurang, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Miner
Died:	Underground explosion, France, 27 November 1916
Cemetery:	Hersin Communal Cemetery Extension Plot I, Row C, Grave 21,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor

1 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1071, Claremont, Tasmania
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 1071, Mining Corps, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 1071, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
27 Nov 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 1071, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Killed at Messines Ridge near Loos, France. The Germans detonated a deep camouflet in the 'Black Watch' mine system just as the Australian tunnellers were charging their own camouflet. The blast killed twenty sappers and a further nine men were gassed. This event was the greatest single loss of life experienced by an Australian tunnelling company during the whole war.

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