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Home Page The Men The Families The Cemeteries History Visit Gallipoli Contact Us Site Map The Project   KIDSON, Edric Doyle A.I.F.
Unit 12th Battalion Rank Sergeant Service no. 828
Date of Death 25 April 1915 Place of Death  

Age

 22
Cemetery Baby 700 Details Sp. Mem. 3
Epitaph  
   
Next of Kin (Father) KIDSON Charles Barclay  
Parents Charles Barclay and Mary Amelia Kidson  Parliament House, Perth WA
Date of Birth   Place of birth WA Perth Source  
           

General

"Kidson was in the Anzac landing.  A party had to advance seven or eight hundred yards to act as a shield to the main body.  Kidson was with this party and fell during the charge.  Witness saw Kidson kneeling with his head on the ground.  He lay very quiet.  The party had to retire after an hour or so.  Many bodies were lying on the ground retired over.  Machine guns played across these bodies.  Kidson must have been dead when witness saw him, and his body would be riddled with machine gun bullets.  Kidson lived in S. Perth.  He had an impediment in his speech.  His father is a parliament official in W. Australia."

Australian War Memorial, Red Cross files, 1DRL/0428, 1510403 (source 7)
   

Other Sources

  
Photo The Western Mail Newspaper, 25 June 1915, page 28 (source 52)
Newspaper article The Adelaide Advertiser Newspaper, 16 June 1915, page 10 (source 47)
Newspaper article The Argus Newspaper, 12 August 1915, page 1 (source 42)
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