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Unit |
5th Battalion,
G Company |
Rank |
Lance
Corporal |
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Date of Enlistment |
18 August
1914 |
Service no. |
757 |
|
Date of Death |
26 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
At sea -
on S. S. City of Benares, from a shrapnel wound to the neck
received at the landing |
|
Age |
27 |
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Cemetery |
Lone Pine Memorial |
Details |
Panel 24 |
|
Epitaph |
- |
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Next of Kin |
(Father)
JANSSEN Inuk J |
Address |
Nessway,
Barry St, Mentone VIC |
|
Parents |
Inuk P J
and Margaret Janssen |
Address |
Nessway,
Barry St, Mentone VIC |
|
Date of Birth |
1887 |
Place of birth |
VIC
Sebastopol, Ballarat |
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General |
Carl Janssen landed at
Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. The boat that both brothers were in was hit
by a shell. Carl received a wound to the abdomen. He died at
11:45am on 26 April on the S. S. City of Benares. He was buried
at sea between Gallipoli and Alexandria.
Army Service papers, National
Archives of Australia (source 8) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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Australian War Memorial - AWM H05579 (source 7) |
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Photo |
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The Sydney Mail Newspaper, 12 May 1915 (source 15) |
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Photo |
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The Argus Newspaper, 4 May 1915, page 8 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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- The
Australasian newspaper, 15 May August 1915, page
vii, (source 31)
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Photo |
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http://desert-column.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=741&start=10&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
(source 57) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus
Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 10 (source 42) |
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|
Newspaper article |
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The
Ballarat Courier Newspaper, 5 May 1915, page 3 (source
375) |
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Family details |
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|
Spirits of
Gallipoli |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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MASSEY, Graeme, Gallipoli Heroes – a tribute to the men from
Western Victoria who gave their lives for their country, page 63 (source 19) |
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Notes |
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TAYLOR, Amanda M, Dinkum Oil - Letters Published in the
Ballarat Courier During the Great War, page 12
(source 51) |
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Various |
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Sebastopol War Memorial, VIC (source 146) |
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Various |
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Sebastopol War Memorial, VIC (source 146) |
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Various |
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Sebastopol War Memorial, VIC (source 146) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 44 (source 14) |
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