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Vernon Clifford Lanyon

Name: Lanyon, Vernon Clifford.
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 1735
Place of Birth: Truro (S. Aust.)
Occupation: Clerk
Age: 21
Date of Enlistment: 13 May 1915.
Place of Enlistment: Keswick (S. Aust.)
Service: Australian Imperial Force
Unit: 27th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement
Date of Death: 19 September 1915.
Place of Death: Gallipoli (Turkey)
Place of Burial: East Mudros Military Cemetery (Greece)
Memorials: Darwin Cenotaph.
Service History: Darwin Cable Guards for 2 ½ years.
Embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A61 Kanowna, 23 June 1915.
Wounded at Gallipoli, 18 September 1915. Died of wounds aboard H.S. "Maheno", 19 September 1915.
Next of Kin: Robert and Hannah Lanyon - Parents ; 6 Angus Street, Kent Town, South Australia.
Lt. A. W. Coward - Cousin ; 24th Battalion, killed in action, 26 August 1916.
Related link: Service Record
Nominal Roll
Embarkation Roll
Roll of Honour
Unit War diary
W. Dollman and H.M. Skinner, The blue and brown diamond: History of the 27th Battalion (A.I.F.) on active service. Adelaide: Lonnen & Cope, 1921.
Northern Territory Times and Gazette, Thursday 4 November 1915, page 17
Northern Territory Times and Gazette, Thursday 13 April 1916, page 14.
Northern Territory Times and Gazette, Thursday 30 April 1914, page 7.
Darwin Cenotaph
Darwin RSL Roll of Honour
NT Place Names Register

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