Thursday 28 June 2007

10. Capt LR Hartland & Pte GFJ Gascoyne

Lt Hon Leslie R Hartland of B Coy 8th Battalion AIF was killed in action on 26 July 1915 when a trench collapsed owing to heavy Turkish shelling of Steele's Post. Beside him rests Pte George FJ Gascoyne 1942, also of 8th Battalion, who was killed in action on 21 July 1915. Both men are in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery.