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Horace LUND

Regimental number1165
Place of birthPort Melbourne, Victoria
ReligionMethodist
OccupationLabourer
Address47 Gilbert Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Height5' 7"
Weight120 lbs
Next of kinFather, Edward Lund, 47 Gilbert Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date21 July 1915
Place of enlistmentMelbourne, Victoria
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name29th Battalion, D Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/46/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 10 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll29th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 19-20 July 1916
Place of burialRue-Petillon Military Cemetery (Plot I, Row K, Grave No. 62), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
115
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Edward and Elizabeth LUND, 47 Albert Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Melbourne, 10 November 1915; disembarked Suez, 7 December 1915.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 16 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 23 June 1916.

Killed in action, 19 July 1916.

Buried at Eaton Hall Cemetery by Reverend James Green, 20 July 1916.

Statement, Red Cross File No 1640146 , 1092 Pte A.D. CAMERON, D Company, 29th Bn (patient, 13th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne), 5 December 1916: 'He was a despatch rider and was killed by one of our own bombs. Lt. George was wounded by the same bomb. One needn't say that it was an accident. It occurred some way behind the line on the road, therefore I ould think that Lund would be taken to the cemetery at Fromelles where other of our fellows were buried.'

Second statement, 2052 Pte T.C. HILDEBRAND, 29th Bn, 14 Decemer 1916: 'Informant states that on 19th July, 1916, at Fleurbaix between 9 and 10 o'clock p.m. Pte. Lund, engaged as despatch rider, was killed outright by bomb while resting. He was buried next day at Fleurbaix.'

Third statement, 1114 Pte W. FARROW, D Company, 29th Bn (patient, No 26 General Hospital, Boulogne), 20 December 1916: 'He was killed on the morning of the 20th July. We had attacked the previous evening. His death was due to a bomb exploding accidentally, Lund being wounded in the stomach. I saw him acrried away. This was the back of our line near a dump.'

Fourth statement, 380 Pte F.J. BUCKLAND, A Company, 29th Bn, 15 January 1917: 'He was a Brigade Runner, and was rising his bicycle along the road near Fleurbaix with a message when a shrapnel shell burst over him. I saw his body lying afterwards lying in the ditch by the roadside. The body is buried in Eaton Hall cemetery, near Cellar Farm.'

Fifth statement, 1273 Pte D. BAKER, D Company, 29th Bn, 5 February 1917: 'He was killed at Fleurbaix on 16th. July, by accident. Some of the Grenadiers were detonating bombs. One of the bombs went wrong. It was thrown across put of the way of thebombers and Lund was blown up and killed outright. Pte. R. Wakeling, 303, D. Co. buried his body at Fleurbaix.'

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, LUND Horace
Red Cross file 1640146

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