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.