John Johnstone Dedman

a Soldier of the Border Regiment / Remembered with Honour
John Johnstone Dedman
John Johnstone Dedman
John Johnstone Dedman
Military
Rank 2nd Lieutenant / Commissioned 19 March 1915
Battalion 6th Battalion and 2nd Battalion[1][2][3]
Regiment Border Regiment
Transferred To: Indian Army / 1917
Personal
Full Name John Johnstone Dedman
Born 2 June 1896 / Knowe, Wigtownshire, Scotland[4]
Education Ewart Boys' High School, Newton Stewart
Edinburgh University with a plan to study engineering[5]
Parents James Baillie Dedman (schoolteacher) and Mary Dedman (née Johnstone)[4]
Nationality Scottish
Remembrance
Casualty Type Wounded in action in 1917 / Survived the War
Died 22 November 1973[4][6]
Age 77 Years
Media
Biography
In 1922 John left the army and began dairy farming in Australia. Shortly thereafter he entered into politics[6] eventually becoming a minister[4] in Australian Labour Party Governments during the Second World War and afterwards.
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References and notes
The information in our Rolls of Honour have been compiled using two primary sources: HMSO's Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. These have been used for consistency to ensure that any transcriptions are as accurate as possible, with the exception of discrepancies between the two sources and typos that occur from time to time. Additional sources, where used, have been referenced separately below. For soldiers that survived the war, their details do not contain the memorial scroll and are not listed in the Rolls of Honour. However, each individual has his own remembrance page to be remembered with honour.

For the Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour a secondary and carefully researched source, The Lonsdale War Grave Project, has been used to fill in some gaps with information not available in the aforementioned sources. Permission has been kindly granted by the owner for use here. For further information about the fields used above see Notes and definitions for soldier remembrance pages.

  1. 2nd Battalion War Diary, January 1917, entry for 31 January.
  2. 2nd_Battalion War Diary, February 1917, entry for 26 February.
  3. 2nd Battalion War Diary, March 1917, entry for 21 and 24 March.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Dedman, John Johnstone(1896-1973). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 27 April, 2020.
  5. The university roll of honour reads: DEDMAN, JOHN JOHNSTONE. Ewart High School, Newton-Stewart. Student of Science, 1914-15. O.T.C. Engineers, Oct. 1914 to March 1915, Cadet. 10th Border Regiment, 2nd Lieut. March 1915 ; Lieut. Dec. 1916; Captain July 1918. 2/1 19th Infantry, Indian Army. Gallipoli July 1915 ; Egypt Dec. 1915; France Dec. 1916; India Nov. 1917.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Death of the Honourable J.J. Dedman. Historic Hansard. Accessed 27 April, 2020.
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