Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918
Landon H Pte 3816 Harrop 14 Inf Bn 24 Ironmonger Single Pres
Address: Brunswick, Grantham St, 86
Next of Kin: Landon, Harrop, father, 86 Grantham St, Brunswick West
Enlisted: 31 Jul 1915
Embarked: A40 Ceramic 23 Nov 1915
Relatives on Active Service:
Landon-W-M-Sgt-1225 brother KIA
Landon, Colonel, cousin, Heavetree Park, Exeter.
Date of Death: 01/10/1917
CWGC: "Son of Harrop and Elizabeth Landon, of 86, Grantham St., Brunswick, Victoria. Native of Deniliquin, New South Wales".
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Extracts from Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiries Bureau Correspondence
Re Pte H Landon. In the first, he was slightly wounded and was about to have his wound dressed when another shell exploded near him and killed him. He was buried just behind the front line, not in a soldiers' cemetery. Lieut Latemen, Sergt Wade of the Battalion can give you any details concerning his relatives also the last mentioned was in the front line but did not witness his death. He was known to us as "Tibber". He was of average height, 5ft 8 in, slim, fair hair, loose limbed, blue eyes, pleasant features. 3816 Pte Harrop Landon, C Coy, 46th Battn AIF.
4549 Pte P McArdle
C Coy, 46th Battn
AIF France.
London 14/5/18.
I knew Casualty. He was a man about 5'7", well built, dark complexion about 23 years of age, known as "Tipper". Casualty was holding the line at Zonnebeke. A trench Mortar shell exploded near Casualty mortally wounding him. He died two hours later. I was 5 yards away at the time the shell exploded, and I saw his body on a stretcher being carried out. I do not know where he was buried.
L/Cpl R C Howe, No 4956
Private address: 74 Barnett Street, Kensington
TCF 4.4.19
https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1043336--1-.pdf
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The Landon family lived in Spencer St Essendon prior to the war.
War Service Commemorated
Christ Church Roll of Honour*
Essendon State School
Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours
Died on Service
LANDON.—Killed in action in France, October 1,
Private Harrop Landon, dearly loved second son
of H. and E. Landon, Grantham street, Bruns-
wick; affectionate brother of Mackenzie (on ac-
tive service), Harcourt, and Carlyle; cousin of
Colonel Landon, Heavetree Park, Exeter; and
the late Sir Arthur Jermyn Landon, of Majuba
Hill, South Africa.
Family Notices (1917, October 27). The Argus
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 13.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1659082
LANDON.—Pte. Harrop, second son of Harrop and
Elizabeth, Grantham street, Brunswick; brother of Sergt.
Mackenzie (on active service), Harcourt, and Carlyle,
after over two years service, and wounded three times.
Family Notices. (1917, November 1). The Argus (Melbourne,
Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1659961
LATIMER.—In loving memory of our dearly loved
son, L.-Cpl. H. R. (Bert), aged 23 years, who was
killed in action, Nov. 14, 1916, 46th Batt, loved
brother of Sylvie and Sydney (on active service
abroad). Also a tribute to his late comrade, Pte.
H. Landon, who was killed in action, Oct. 1, 1917.
Two of Australia's best.
Time may soothe a broken heart.
Time may make a wound less sore,
But time can never stop the longing
For our dear ones gone before.
-(Inserted by his loving father and mother, Daisy
street, Essendon.)
Family Notices. (1917, November 14). The Argus
(Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1663009
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