LANDEN, Harry
| Service Number: | 761 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1915, An original member of D Company |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia, 7 March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Malvern Road State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Malta, 7 October 1915, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Pieta Military Cemetery Grave A. XIII. 3. INSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF THE DEARLY LOVED SON OF MR.& MRS.H.LANDEN OF PRAHRAN |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 761, 23rd Infantry Battalion, An original member of D Company | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 761, 23rd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 761, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 26 and the son of Harry and Ellen Landen, of 128, Commercial Rd., Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Harry Landen, as an original member of the 23rd Battalion landed on Gallipoli on 4 September 1915, arriving there at 9:30 pm that evening. The battalion took up defensive positions at Lone Pine. Harry fell sick only a few weeks later, being admitted to the 6th Field Ambulance on 24 September 1915. He was diagnosed with influenza and bronchitis and evacuated to Malta where he was admitted to St George’s Hospital with pneumonia on 1 October 1915. He passed away six days later and was buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.
His younger brother, 3052 Gunner George Asher Landen 3rd Field Artillery Brigade was killed in action almost two years later in Ypres, Belgium on 26 September 1917, aged 27.
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