Hedley Elbert CULLEN

Date of birth8 August 1894
Place of birthTerowie, South Australia
SchoolTerowie Public School, South Australia
ReligionProtestant
OccupationMerchant
AddressVictoria Terrace, Hawthorn, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinWilliam Cullen, Victoria Terrace, Hawthorn, South Australia
Enlistment date16 December 1914
Rank on enlistment2nd Lieutenant
Unit name10th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/27/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A54 Runic on 19 February 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll10th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 10 August 1915
Place of death or woundingLone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age at death21
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 32), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
58
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated in Terowie Cemetery, South Australia.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Wounded in action (sniper), Lone Pine, 9 August 1915; died of wounds on board HS 'Dongala', 10 August 1915; buried at sea.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal