KENDALL, Hassall Marsden Harding
| Service Number: | 365 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 21 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Singleton Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Accountant / Bank Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 19 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot II, Row F, Grave No 16 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Singleton Public School HR, Singleton War Memorial, Sydney (ANZ) English, Scottish and Australian Bank Great War Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Kendall was reported missing, 19 July 1916. A Court of Enquiry, held in the field, 1 August 1917, pronounced his fate as 'Killed in Action, 19 July 1916'.
A witness in his Red Cross file reported 'One of my mates by name Sgt. MacDougall 31st A.I.F. B Co. still with his unit told me that the last he saw of Cpl. Kendall [he] was having a bayonet fight with a German in the second line of German trenches at Fleurbaix.'
Another witness stated he saw his dead body caught up in the barbed wire. Kendall was eventually included on the list of 75 Australian soldiers whose remains were recovered from the burial pits at Pheasant Wood and whose identities have been established by the Fromelles Joint Identification Board which was released on Wednesday 17 March 2010.
His older brother, 388 Private Edward Denis Kendall served with the 20th Battalion at Gallipoli. He died of pneumonia in Egypt on 19 June 1916, aged 34.
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