Service Details:

25 May	1915                      Blackboy Hill Training camp
9 June	1915                      Embarked from Fremantle
August	1915                      Embarked Egypt
10 Sept. – 12 Dec.	1915                      Gallipoli
21 March	1916                      France
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
7 June	1916                      Wounded, Trench Raid
7 September	1916                      Rejoined Unit
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
18 October	1916                      Promoted L/Corporal
October	1916                      Ypres and Dernacourt
3 November	1916                      Battle of Ancres Heights & Fricourt
5 November	1916                      Promoted Corporal
February	1917                      Warlencourt
March	1917                      Attack on Malt Trench
May	1917                      Battle of Bullecourt (Hindenburg Line)
6 May	1917                      Promoted Sergeant
June	1917                      Bapaume
August	1917                      Cassel
16 August	1917                      7th Training Battalion
29 November	1917                      Rejoined Battalion
December	1917                      Red Lodge
7 April	1918                      Dernacourt
19 April	1918                      Wounded
11 November	1918                      Armistice
7 March	1919                      Returned to Australia

 

 

Biographical Details:

John (Jack) Sandercock was born to Richard and Mary Sandercock in the farming district of Wandiligong of Victoria in 1892.
At the outbreak of the war Jack was farming in Beverley, Western Australia.  It was here that he enlisted in the 28th Battalion in May 1915.
The 28th Battalion was located in Egypt for three months undergoing further training before transferring to Gallipoli. In October Jack was hospitalised and sent to Abbassia. He was able to rejoin his Battalion in time for the move to France.
During the Trench Raid, Jack was part of the Right Parapet Party. He was one of the four Raiders wounded while returning to the Australian trenches. While most of the Raiders were enjoying special leave in London, Jack was being treated for wounds to an arm and a leg.
Jack was able to return to the field in August and was quickly promoted L/Cpl and Corporal and eventually Sergeant. Unfortunately in April 1918 he was again wounded. He was invalided to England but his injuries were severe enough to see him returned to Australia where he was discharged in March 1919.
Jack returned to farming in the Beverley district. In 1920 he married Bertha Jane Gover with whom he had three children.
Jack died in 1963, aged 71.  In 1967 Bertha applied for Jack’s ANZAC Commemorative Medallion.