Son of Sarah Crammond, of Bailes St., Bendigo, Victoria, and the late George Crammond.
Regimental number 2605
Place of birth Sandhurst, Victoria
School Central Bendigo State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Hairdresser
Address Bailes Street, Bendigo, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Mother, Mrs Sarah Crammond, Bailes Street, Bendigo, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 5 months in the 8th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces, Bendigo.
Enlistment date 9 July 1915, Bendigo, Victoria
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 24th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on 27 October 1915
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 60th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 19 July 1916, France.
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details V.C. Corner (Panel No 19), Australian Cemetery Memorial, Fromelles, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 169
Miscellaneous information from
cemetery records Commemorated on James Roe Lodge (MU) Roll of Honor ['Our Soldier Brethren'], RSL Museum, Bendigo, Victoria. Parents: George and Sarah CRAMMOND, Bailes Street, Bendigo, Victoria
War service: Egypt, Western Front
Admitted to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis, 15 January 1916 (tonsilitis, mild); discharged, 1 February 1916.
Taken on strength, 60th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 26 February 1916.
Admitted to 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, 26 February 1916 (not yet diagnosed), and transferred same day to No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital (pyrexia, unknown origin); to Hospital Train No 4, 27 February 1916, and admitted to No 1 Australian General Hospital, Heliopolis (fancitis); rejoined Bn from hospital, 16 March 1916.
To hospital, 30 March 1916; rejoined unit, 1 April 1916 (no further details recorded).
Appointed Lance Corporal, 13 April 1916.
Admitted to 8th Australian Field Ambulance, 30 April 1916 (diarrhoea); rejoined unit, Duntroon Plateau, 4 May 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 18 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 29 June 1916.
Reported Missing, 19 July 1916.
Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 4 August 1917, pronounced fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
Note, Red Cross File No 830205: 'No trace Germany[.] Cert. by Capt. Mills 10-10-19.'
Note: 'Missing 19.6.17, previously reported prisoner (sic) of War. Cert. by A.I.F. HdQtrs 8.11.17.'
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal