WEEDON, Harry
| Service Number: | 3253 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Claremont, Western Australia, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Osborne Park, Stirling, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Claremont State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Teamster |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 15 July 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3253, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3253, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3253, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Berrima, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Harry Weedon was the son of Samuel and Emily Weedon of Claremont, Western Australia and was the oldest of their three sons who died on active service. The Weedon brothers had lost their father during 1911 and their widowed mother bore the brunt of their loss.
Harry enlisted in mid-June 1916 but his embarkation was delayed for unknown reasons. He didn’t join the 51st Battalion in the front line until a week before his death. His Red Cross wounded and missing file is quite detailed and it seems that Harry and three other men were all killed when a heavy shell burst directly in the dug-out they were sleeping in. Although all were buried in marked graves, the graves were lost.
His younger brother 4914 Pte. Walter Weedon also of the 51st Battalion was killed in action at Mouquet Farm during 1916. Another brother, 3623 Trooper George Frederick Weedon, 15th Australian Light Horse Regiment, died of pneumonia in Lebanon on 1 November 1918.
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