5th Battalion
Killed In Action
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Albert Henry Tuddenham (SN 1124/1185) was born at Smythesdale where he attended the Smythesdale State School. He was a 25 year old engine driver when he enlisted in Melbourne on September 19th 1914. He joined the 5th Infantry Battalion, embarking from Melbourne aboard the Themistocles just before Christmas. He took part in the famous Gallipoli landing but was wounded on May 13th 1915 and evacuated to hospital on Malta then England. Once recovered he rejoined his unit in France in March 1917 but in September he was wounded again and hospitalised in England. He returned to France in May 1918 but only a week later, on May 16th 1918 he was killed in action near Broodseinde, and is buried in La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, France.