This is a list of notable people who were killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on Sunday, 25 April 1915 while serving with Australian armed forces during World War I. [1] The list is ordered by family name.
According to the historians at the Australian War Memorial, [2] it is generally accepted that the total number of Australian casualties, killed and wounded at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915 is something of the order of 2,000 men; and, although no-one can be certain of the precise number, it is generally accepted that something like 650 Australian servicemen were killed in action at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 [3]—and, according to Stanley (2014), the "first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 … came from just six companies of the 9th, 10th and 11th Battalions [of the Australian Imperial Force]" and, of those who landed in that first wave, 101 were killed in action. [4]
Name | Service Number |
Birthplace | Occupation at Enlistment |
Age at death |
Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Balfe, Joseph Rupert | — [5] | Brunswick, Victoria | Fifth year medical student |
25 | Lieutenant, A Company 6th Battalion, First A.I.F. [6] |
Cordner, Joseph Alan | 180 | Bridgewater On Loddon, Victoria | Clerk | 24 | Private, 6th Battalion, First A.I.F. [7] |
Crowl, Claude Terrelll | 337 | Stratford, Victoria | Farmer | 22 | Private, 8th Battalion, First A.I.F. [8] |
Fincher, Charles | 472 | Footscray, Victoria | Engine-driver | 23 | Private, 5th Battalion, First A.I.F. [9] |
Larkin, Edward Rennix | 321 | North Lambton, N.S.W. | Member of Parliament [10] |
34 | Sergeant, 1st Battalion, First A.I.F. [11] |
McDonald, Fenley John | 127 | Nagambie, Victoria | Stock and station agent |
23 | Private, 7th Battalion, First A.I.F. [12] |
Pearce, Arthur Mueller | 418 | Sandhurst (Bendigo) | Clerk | 30 | Corporal, 7th Battalion, First A.I.F. [13] |
Strahan, William Henry | 199 | Toodyay, Western Australia | Orchardist | 45 | Sergeant, 16th Battalion, |
Swannell, Blair Inskip | — [5] |
Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England |
Not employed | 39 | Major, 1st Battalion, First A.I.F. [16] |
The last surviving individual who had served in any capacity for any of the combatants during the Gallipoli campaign was Alec Campbell (2731). [17] Born in Tasmania on 26 February 1899, Campbell saw action at Gallipoli aged 16 (having given his age at the recruiting office as 18 years 4 months). He died in Tasmania on 16 May 2002, aged 103 years. [18]
This is a list of notable people who were killed in action during the landing at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, in Turkey on Sunday, 25 April 1915 while serving with Australian armed forces during World War I. [1] The list is ordered by family name.
According to the historians at the Australian War Memorial, [2] it is generally accepted that the total number of Australian casualties, killed and wounded at Anzac Cove, on 25 April 1915 is something of the order of 2,000 men; and, although no-one can be certain of the precise number, it is generally accepted that something like 650 Australian servicemen were killed in action at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915 [3]—and, according to Stanley (2014), the "first wave to land at dawn on 25 April 1915 … came from just six companies of the 9th, 10th and 11th Battalions [of the Australian Imperial Force]" and, of those who landed in that first wave, 101 were killed in action. [4]
Name | Service Number |
Birthplace | Occupation at Enlistment |
Age at death |
Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Balfe, Joseph Rupert | — [5] | Brunswick, Victoria | Fifth year medical student |
25 | Lieutenant, A Company 6th Battalion, First A.I.F. [6] |
Cordner, Joseph Alan | 180 | Bridgewater On Loddon, Victoria | Clerk | 24 | Private, 6th Battalion, First A.I.F. [7] |
Crowl, Claude Terrelll | 337 | Stratford, Victoria | Farmer | 22 | Private, 8th Battalion, First A.I.F. [8] |
Fincher, Charles | 472 | Footscray, Victoria | Engine-driver | 23 | Private, 5th Battalion, First A.I.F. [9] |
Larkin, Edward Rennix | 321 | North Lambton, N.S.W. | Member of Parliament [10] |
34 | Sergeant, 1st Battalion, First A.I.F. [11] |
McDonald, Fenley John | 127 | Nagambie, Victoria | Stock and station agent |
23 | Private, 7th Battalion, First A.I.F. [12] |
Pearce, Arthur Mueller | 418 | Sandhurst (Bendigo) | Clerk | 30 | Corporal, 7th Battalion, First A.I.F. [13] |
Strahan, William Henry | 199 | Toodyay, Western Australia | Orchardist | 45 | Sergeant, 16th Battalion, |
Swannell, Blair Inskip | — [5] |
Weston Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England |
Not employed | 39 | Major, 1st Battalion, First A.I.F. [16] |
The last surviving individual who had served in any capacity for any of the combatants during the Gallipoli campaign was Alec Campbell (2731). [17] Born in Tasmania on 26 February 1899, Campbell saw action at Gallipoli aged 16 (having given his age at the recruiting office as 18 years 4 months). He died in Tasmania on 16 May 2002, aged 103 years. [18]