Dudley, YMCA
NSW

Aaron Smith Haddon

Enlistment Date
28/08/1914
Age At Enlistment
24
Rank On Enlistment
Private
Regimental No.
700
Battalion
1st Battalion, F Company – Camel Corps
Fate
KIA
Fate Date
19/04/1917
Fate Place
Gaza, Palestine
Occupation
Packer
Place of Birth
Merewether, NSW
Religion
Methodist
Marital Status
Single
Embarkation Details
Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A19 Afric on 18 October 1914

Private Aaron Haddon grew up in Dudley and represented his local Dudley team. Before the war he moved to Redfern in Sydney and turned out for the YMCA team, working at the Grace Brothers department store as a packer.

Private Haddon came ashore on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He received a gunshot wound to the right shoulder a few day later and was evacuated to England. After recovering he was transferred to the 1st Battalion Camel Corps.

On 19 April 1917 during an attack near Gaza, Palestine on a Turkish fort on 19 April 1917 he was shot in the thigh. His wound was dressed and he was told to retreat. He was not seen again. On 29 December 1917 a court of inquiry declared him killed in action. Private Haddon is memorialised with a headstone in the Gaza Cemetery.