GARDEN, Norman Douglas
| Service Number: | 763 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914, Enlisted at Bendigo |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Taradale, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Castlemaine, Mount Alexander, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Castlemaine South State School, Taradale State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Letter Carrier |
| Died: | Enteric Fever, St Andrews Hospital, Malta, 23 October 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Pieta Military Cemetery Plot A, Row XV11, Grave 5 Chaplain W. Cowan officiated Headstone inscription reads: Thy will be done |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1, Postmaster General's Department Victoria 2, Taradale State School 614 Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 763, Enlisted at Bendigo | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 763, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 763, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 763, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Shrapnel wounds to the back and invalided to England | |
| 23 Oct 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 763, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 763 awm_unit: 7 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-10-23 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Henry and Blanche Edith (nee Goodwin) Garden of Berkeley Street, Castlemaine, Victoria. Brother of Stanley Dunbar Garden, Alice Annah Garden, Donald John Dunbar Garden, Henry Robinson Garden, Janet Emily Garden, John Dunbar Garden, Glenroy Sydney Garden, Hester Garden and Alan Bruce Cameron Garden,
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in the Citizen Military Forces
Biography contributed by Larna Malone
Norman Douglas Garden was born in Taradale, Vic., the son of Henry (dec.) & Blanch Edith Garden, of Castlemaine. He was a Letter-Carrier at the Bendigo Post Office, having previously transferred from the Castlemaine Post Office. Aged 19 years & 6 months, he was currently serving in the 67th Infantry. He was amongst the early volunteers for the Expeditionary Force, enlisting on 18.8.14. The following day he left Bendigo for the Broadmeadows Camp. He was allotted Service no. 763 and appointed to ‘G’ Company, 7th Battalion. While at Broadmeadows he was appointed Lance Corporal.
Prior to Embarkation he was Presented with a Souvenir from the Staff of the Castlemaine Post Office.
The 7th Battalion left Broadmeadows Camp on 18 October, 1914, and embarked for service overseas on board HMAT ‘Hororata’. Arriving in Egypt the battalion moved into camp at Mena, at the foot of the pyramids. (6/12/14)
In January, 1915, the Australian force was re-organized. In the 7th Battalion ‘G’ and ‘H’ Companies joined to form the new ‘D’ Company. This meant that all the men from Northern Victoria were together in one Company.
The 7th Battalion was part of the force which landed at Anzac Cove on 25th April, 1915. Norman Douglas Garden was Wounded during the Landing, sustaining a Shrapnel wound in his back.
Garden: “The Turks got the range of our trenches, and shells were landing frequently in them, so we were given the order to retire until the fire eased. We went back about 15 yards and lay behind cover. Of course, one of the shells must burst over where I was lying, and I got hit by one of the shrapnel bullets right between the shoulder-blades. It was as if someone had hit me with a hammer and knocked my wind out. As soon as I got my wind I rushed across into the communication trench, about 30 yards from where I was, and some of the chaps helped me down to the dressing hospital, where I had my wound dressed, and was under the trees until night time, when the stretcher-bearers could carry me down to the hospital boat.” [Bendigonian August 5, 1915]
He rejoined the battalion on 15/8/15.
On 3/9/15 Norman Douglas Garden was admitted to No. 3 Field Ambulance Dressing Station suffering from Dysentery. He was sent to hospital in Mudros, on Lemnos Island, and was finally transferred to hospital in Malta. He Died of Disease (Enteric) on 23/10/15 and was Buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.
“The First Lot. 7th Battalion. The first men of the Bendigo district to volunteer for service in the First World War.”: Larna Malone
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