SANDILANDS, Henry
| Service Number: | 7787 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 March 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1867 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Letter Sorter |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 October 1951, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 16 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7787, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 7787, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 7787, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle | |
| 15 Feb 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7787, 11th Infantry Battalion, embarked Plymouth for Melbourne on board HT Llanstefan Castle | |
| 28 Apr 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7787, 11th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Henry Sandilands (Service No:7787) enlisted in the AIF at Blackboy Hill, WA on 16 March 1917 with Rifle Corps. Private Sandilands was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit on 29 June 1917 from Fremantle, WA for England on board HMAT A30 Borda. On 15 February 1918 Private Sandilands embarked from Plymouth for Melbourne on board HT Llanstefan castle and was attached to 11th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 28 April 1918.
Henry was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1867, third of eighteen children of Henry George Sandilands (b1837 in Middlesex, England) and Lucy Hicks (b1847 in Bulleen, Victoria). Henry Snr immigrated with his parents and siblings in the early 1840's, and he and Lucy married in 1864 in Heidelberg, Victoria. They lived in Melbourne and Bulleen before settling in Tallygaroopna, where they raised their family and Henry Snr was a Farmer.
Henry worked on the family farm at Tallygaroopna, and in 1897 at Bulleen in Victoria, he married Annie Florence Speake (b1876 in Fremantle, WA). In the early 1900s the couple joined some of Henry's siblings in Western Australia, settling in Leederville, Perth where Henry joined the Postmaster General's Department as a Postman, Letter Sorter and Mail Officer. Retiring in 1928, Henry and Annie moved to Melbourne, where Henry died in 1951 and Annie in 1959.
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