Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

28/09/1915

Date of Discharge

26/10/1919

Place of Enlistment

Holsworthy NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Bombala NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Nabiac NSW (previously Mulligans Flat, Gungahlin ACT)

Occupation

Teacher

Next of Kin

George Landon (father), Auburn NSW

Service Number

11087

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

1 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honour 1914-19 in Queanbeyan Masonic Centre, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Ainslie Cricket Club Honour Roll - refer Queanbeyan Age 28 January 1916
Nabiac War Memorial

Harry Landon was the school teacher at Mulligans Flat from 1910 to 1915. He was born in Bombala in 1889, was a foundation member of the Canberra Rifle Club and a prominent district cricketer with the Ainslie club, who enlisted on 28 September 1915 with his mate, Edward 'Johnny' Jackson.

He served as a Gunner in the 1st Field Artillery Brigade in France from January 1917 but was wounded in the leg near Ypres in October 1917. In May 1918 he was sent to the Royal Field Artillery Cadet School at St. Johns Wood. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in December 1918 (when he returned to France) and to Lieutenant in March 1919. He contracted pneumonia in August 1919 and returned to Australia shortly thereafter.

Landon was discharged in October 1919 and went into partnership in 1920 with Jackson running a store in Berrima. However, he did not fully recover from pneumonia, dying on 3 May 1921 in Berrima. He was buried at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.

Description - height 6 feet, weight 177 pounds, chest 34½ inches to 38 inches, fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

Lyall Gillespie, 'Early Education and Schools in the Canberra Region', 1999
Lyall Gillespie, 'Ginninderra - Forerunner to Canberra', 1992
Stories from the ACT Memorial, 'Ainslie Challenges the Kultur Club', ACT Heritage Library www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/stories_from_the_act_memorial
Queanbeyan Age - 30 April 1912, 23 September 1913, 13 October 1914, 24 November 1914, 15 June 1915, 12 October 1915, 25 January 1916, 18 February 1916, 9 October 1916, 17 September 1918, 4 November 1919, 6 May 1921
The Scrutineer & Berrima District Press - 4 May 1921
Sydney Morning Herald - 4 May 1921
National Library of Australia : Canberra Rifle Club Minute Book 1914-1939 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 3996)
National Library of Australia : Country Women's Association of NSW (Canberra Branch) History, 1959 (manuscript call no. NLA MS 734)