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14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force 19th Aug 1915 In the Trenches 10th Feb 1917 Under Shellfire 28th Aug 1917 Reliefs   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force? There are:2 items tagged 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 14th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force during the Great War 1914-1918. Antill Robert Edmund. Cpl. (d.5th Jul 1917 ) Henderson Alan Dudley. Lt. (d.27th-30th Apr 1915) Jacka VC, MC & Bar Albert. Capt Murray George Alexander Hugh . Sgt. (d.30th Mar 1918) Oakley Arthur Edward. L/Cpl. (d.10th Aug 1917) Surtees Harold Roy. Pte. 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He died in a forward observation post that was hit by a HE shell. If you have any other information about Arthur it would be appreciated. Dean Oakley Add to this record.   Pte. Harold Roy Surtees 14th Battalion My grandfather Harold Surtees was a miner before volunteering to join the AIF in September 1914. He spent time in Gallipoli and according to his war record he was transferred to the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company on the 8th October 1916 and rejoined his unit again on the 28th October 1916. His brother George Smith Surtees also served with the 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company on the 27th April 1917. Greg Morris Add to this record.   Sgt. George Alexander Hugh Murray 4th Division Salvage Coy 14th Infantry Battalion (d.30th Mar 1918) George Alexander Hugh Murray was born at Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1894. At the time the First World War broke out Murray was employed as a farm hand. He had previously spent three-and-a-half years with the 73rd Infantry (Victorian Rangers) of the Citizens' Forces. As a 20-year-old, Murray required and was granted written parental permission to enlist on 8th October 1914 with the Australian Imperial Force. He left Melbourne with the 14th Infantry Battalion aboard HMAT Berrima on 22nd December 1914. On the afternoon of 25th April 1915, Murray landed at Gallipoli with his battalion, and two days later was wounded in action, sustaining a severe gunshot wound to his left knee. Sent to England for recovery, his letters home to family noted that some of the Gallipoli landing survivors applied for staff jobs because they were scared to return to the peninsula. He notes that despite being offered one such job himself he declined because of his sense of duty. Murray rejoined his unit in March 1916 as it went to the Western Front, taking part in the battle at Pozières in August. The following January he was transferred to the newly formed 4th Division Salvage Company. A few months later his younger brother William was killed while delivering a message at Lagnicourt. The death of his brother and his own personal experiences on the Western Front influenced Murray's efforts to dissuade his sister from enlisting as a nurse, writing in one of his letters that "any one over here who has been through it never wishes to bring another if he can help it to put up with the hardships of this life." He returned to the 14th Battalion in October. Murray was killed at Hébuterne the following year on 30th March 1918, one of the many Australians who died repelling the Germans' repeated attempts to outflank the Australian forces. Buried nearby, Murray's body was reinterred after the Armistice at Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery in Fonquevillers, France. His brother's body was never found and so he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial in France for those soldiers with no known grave. Upon the request of their parents, George Murray's headstone at Gommecourt also includes an inscription for William Murray, stating that the brothers are "in death undivided." s flynn Add to this record.   Lt. Alan Dudley Henderson 7th Infantry Battalion (d.27th-30th Apr 1915) Alan Dudley Henderson was born at Hawthorn, Victoria, on 8 July 1894. After attending Trinity Grammar School at Kew in Victoria, Henderson qualified as an accountant. Before the outbreak of the First World War he spent seven years with the senior cadets and two years with the Citizens' Forces. The 20-year-old enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force on 24 August 1914 and departed Melbourne with the 7th Infantry Battalion aboard HMAT Hororata on 19 October 1914. In Egypt, Henderson was made a platoon commander in the newly formed A Company of the 14th Battalion. In early April 1915 the battalion was moved to Alexandria and then to the staging area on Lemnos Island in preparation for the landing on Gallipoli. Henderson wrote of the importance of the coming landing in a letter home: "It is going to be Australia's chance, and she makes a tradition out of this that she must always look back on." The 7th Battalion took part in the landing on 25 April as the second wave of troops to storm ashore. It was on this day that Henderson sustained a serious gunshot wound to the chest whilst Australian forces were desperately trying to establish a foothold on the peninsula. He was evacuated to a hospital ship waiting offshore but, despite treatment, succumbed to his wounds sometime between 27 and 30 April 1915. Alan Henderson was buried at sea and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial at Gallipoli in Turkey. In a letter to Henderson's father, which was published in The Argus on 24 June 1915, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott wrote of Henderson's "coolness and intrepidity" on the day of the landing and how he intervened to prevent the revenge-killing of a wounded Turkish prisoner by his men. His brother Rupert was killed in action on Gallipoli on 8 May 1915. Another brother, Kenneth Henderson, also served during the First World War and returned to Australia in 1918. s flynn Add to this record.   Cpl. Robert Edmund Antill 14th Infantry Battalion (d.5th Jul 1917 ) Robert Edmond Antill was born in England at Islington, London. He was educated at Belmont Road School in Tottenham and worked as a cabinetmaker. Antill left London for Australia on 28th June 1913 at the age of 16. His mother and father, Josh and Alice Antill, stayed in Lancashire and London. He lived in Windsor, Melbourne prior to the outbreak of the First World War and celebrated his 17th birthday aboard the Norseman. He spent his 18th birthday in Australia, his 19th fighting at Gallipoli and his 20th birthday on the Western Front. Antill was killed in action at Ploegsteert, Belgium on 5th July 1917 while serving with the 14th Infantry Battalion and died a fortnight before his 21st birthday. He had enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 9th October 1914 and misreported his age as 22. Robert Antill is buried at Mud Corner Cemetery, Hainaut in Belgium s flynn Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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