HAMMOND, Allan Portsmouth
| Service Number: | 1877 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 June 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Claremont, Western Australia, 5 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Claremont Public School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Pozieres, France, 27 August 1916, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), West Leederville Town Hall HB2 |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1877, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement 1877, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked 1877, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle | |
| 12 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1877, 28th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 20 Nov 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 27 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1877, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1877 awm_unit: 28 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-27 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
The youngest of three brothers who served with the AIF in the Great War, Allan Hammond was just nineteen when he signed up at Perth in June 1915.
He left for the war zone in September 1915 with the 3rd reinforcement of the 28th Battalion. In early October he landed at Gallipoli and shortly after was promoted to Corporal. Due to the extremely cold winter at Gallipoli he was returned to Egypt for medical treatment in mid-December suffering from fever and frost bite, shortly before the total evacuation of the peninsula.
In late May 1916 he was transferred with his 28th Battalion comrades to France and the killing fields of the Western Front. Shortly after arrival Corporal Hammond was promoted to Acing Sergeant.
The War Diary of the 28th records that on August 27, 1916, 'the battalion relieved the 15th Battalion in trenches north west of Pozieres. Except for heavy and contiuous artillery fire the period of occupation was uneventful".
Uneventful it may have been, except for Acting Sergeant Allan Portsmouth Hammond who was killed under the unrelenting and pulverising barrage of shells. His body was never found.
His brothers, Lieutant Leslie Hammond and 288 Private Walter Hammond both survived the war but were severely wounded, suffering injuries that would endure for the rest of their lives.
Biography contributed
Allan Portsmouth HAMMOND was born in Claremont, Western Australia on 5th May, 1896
His parents were James HAMMOND & Matilda ELSON
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