Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

14/08/1914

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

07/08/1894

Place of Birth

Swan Hill, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Son of Annie Patterson, Ligar Street, Ballarat, Victoria

Burial Place

No known burial place.

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

12 Battalion AIF

Died (killed in action) on 25 April 1915, Gallipoli aged 20 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 67, Canberra ACT
Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey

Mentioned in Despatches (Commonwealth of Australia Gazette: 27 January 1916, Page 156, position 131)

Patterson joined the 12th Battalion at Pontville Camp in Tasmania in late August 1914 and was appointed to C Company. On the voyage to Egypt he became platoon commander of No. Platoon, A Company and was responsible for training the Battalion scouts. He landed with the first tow from the Destroyer 'Ribble' at dawn landing on 25 April and beached just north of Anzac Cove opposite Walkers Ridge. His platoon moved across Walkers Ridge to the slopes of Sari Bair where they attempted to dig in and re-organise. In the early afternoon Patterson and his men moved forward to assist the extreme left flank against Turkish attacks. They climbed Russells Top, on the slopes of Baby 700 to reinforce the 2nd Battalion. Bean records that "Margetts watched him cross the head of Malone's Gully with his men (about thirty). Patterson was never seen again." He was te first Duntroon cadet to die on active service. The Headquarters of the Royal Military College, which opened on 5 December 1995, was named Patterson Hall after him.

Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 138 pounds, chest 35-39 inches.

AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Honours & Awards
AWM Collections Record : H15819
Charles Bean, 'Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18' (Vol. I, p.272-274)
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)