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11th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
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Lt . Kenneth McLennan OBE MiD 11th Battalion Kenneth McLennan OBE bornin in 1867 in Alford, Scotland immigrated to Australia in 1885.
He joined the the Militia in 1887 and enlisted in the Australian Army in 1896.
He served in the Boer war and served at Gallipoli.
He ws hospitalised on Malta on 27th of September 1915 and transferred to be treated at the 3rd London General Hospital on 7th of October 1915.
He returned to his unit with the 1st Australian Division in France.
He became a Captain and Adjt when ner Ypres.
He was seconded to the AIF Camp Salisbury Plains, and promoted to be 2nd in Command of Parkhouse Camp in Hampshire.
Whilst at Parkhouse he upgraded the camp and improved the solders general well being and health outcomes, and thereby increasing return soldier numbers returning to the front. he was Mentioned in Dispatches and awarded the OBE (Military)
He returned to Perth, Western Australia to his wife and seven children.
and retired at home.
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Cpl Edward Bernard "Ned" Higgins 11th Battalion Edward Higgins served with 16th Reinforcements 11th Btn
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Pte Christopher Armstrong 11th Battalion (d.23rd Aug 1915) Christopher Armstrong served with 11th Btn 7th Reinforcements
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Pte. William Crellin 11th Battalion (d.7th May 1917) William Crellin served with 11th Battalion, AIF, 16th Reinforcements. He was born at Eltham, Victoria.
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Pte. William Shields 11th Battalion  William Shields, (a sleeper cutter in the forests of SW Western Australia), enlisted from Blackboy Hill, Western Australia at the outbreak of World War 1 on the 23rd September 1914.
As a member of the Australian Imperial Force 11th Battalion, Bill, after training in Egypt, landed on the beaches of Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. After much sickness and injuries he was admitted to Heliopolis on the 28th November 1915, to the 1st Australian General Hospital in Egypt, whereupon a telegram is sent to William's mother Mary in Tasmania informing her that her son is dangerously ill and series of correspondence issue hence forth.
On the 19th December 1915 Bill is reported to be out of danger, and is invalided to Australia embarking on HMS Commonwealth at Suez, to return to Australia for 3 months change. Bill disembarked at Fremantle on the 22nd February, 1916 and was discharged on 9th June 1916 after serving 298 days.
He re-enlisted at Blackboy Hill on the 10th September 1917, Regimental No 8042 (previously 983) with the rank of Private in the 11th Battalion, 27th Reinforcements. His age was recorded as 26 years 8 months, and marital status single. William endured the battles and life on the Western Front in Belgium and France until once again injured wounded in action on the 26th August 1918 with a bayonet wound to the left thigh and was invalided to the United Kingdom on the same day, admitted to Boscombe Hospital, Hants.
William Shields embarked for Australia per Morvada on 4th January 1919, after Armistice had been signed and he had repatriated in an English hospital. William Shields or Bill as he was known to his mates was awarded 1914/1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Memorial plaque
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Pte. Thomas Paget Sudlow 11th Btn. (d.12th August 1916) Thomas Sudlow was the Son of Henry William and Rachel Georgina Sudlow.
He was aged 32 when he died of wounds and is buried in the Blackrock (St. Michael) Church of Ireland Graveyard in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Lt. Charles Pope VC. 11th Btn. Charles Pope was born in London in 1883 but migrated to Canada, where he worked for the Canadian Pacific Railways. He returned to London in 1906 and joined the Metropolitan Police Force, resigning in 1910 to come to Australia with his family. He enlisted in the AIF in August 1915, and in February 1916 he was commissioned as an officer.
Pope was killed in action at Louverval in a desperate "last stand" charge, and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. Occupying an important picquet post during a German attack on the village, he was ordered "to hold this post at all costs". The enemy attacked the post and surrounded it, while Pope sent back an urgent request for re-supply. Before anything could arrive, and with his men out of ammunition, Pope ordered them to charge the large German force. Later his body, together with those of his men, was found close to 80 dead Germans. He is buried in Moeuvres Communal Cemetery in France.
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