The AIF Project

Haviland Montague DURAND

Regimental number720
Place of birthReading England
SchoolElizabeth College, Guernsey, England
Other trainingBA Durham University College
Age on arrival in Australia29
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationSchoolmaster
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation31
Next of kinMother, Mrs Haviland Durand, Moulin Hurt House, St Martin Guernsey, Channel Islands
Enlistment date4 September 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name13th Battalion, G Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/30/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board TRANSPORT A38 Ulysses on 22 December 1914
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll13th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularHe came to Australia intending to enter Bush Brotherhood, became a R.C. and a private tutor, then master at Grammar School, Brisbane, was studying art then enlisted almost immediately in AIF. His Major wrote that he had shown courage and self sacrifice in volunteering to fetch ammunition from beach underfire and saved his line, but this was never verified and we received conflicting accounts of his death. (Sister)
FateKilled in Action 27 April 1915
Place of death or woundingGaba Tepe, Gallipoli, Turkey
Date of death27 April 1915
Age at death31
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 17), 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
69
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Town. Brisbane, Queensland
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

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

Print format    


© The AIF Project 2024, UNSW Canberra. Not to be reproduced without permission.