Edwin Allen BIGNELL

BIGNELL, Edwin Allen

    Service Number: 1078
    Enlisted: 31 August 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 11th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia, 20 February 1879
    Home Town: Walkerville, South Australia
    Schooling: East Adelaide State School, South Australia
    Occupation: Warehouseman
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915, aged 36 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    No known grave Panel 33 Commemorated in the North Road Church of England Cemetery, Adelaide, SA, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gilberton Soldiers Memorial Swimming Reserve, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    31 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1078, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
    2 Nov 1914: Involvement Private, 1078, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
    2 Nov 1914: Embarked Private, 1078, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle
    25 Apr 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1078, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli

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    Biography contributed by Nicholas Egan

    Margaret Phillips

    Club Historian

    Gilberton Amateur Swimming Club Inc.

    He embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli 5 March 1915 and within two months of serving on the peninsula he was killed. On 2 May 1915 1,344 men died at Gallipoli.

    Edwin’s cousin A.E. Joyner, Director Bon Marche Ltd, Draper and Clothier 368-372 Hay Street Perth was the Executor of Edwin’s Estate.

    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    At the time of enlisting he was working in WA

    Son of Francis Bignell and Martha Bignell nee Allen of St Andrews Street, Walkerville, SA. Brother of Catherine May Bignell, Edith Gertrude Bignell, Henry James Stanley Bignell and Martha Bignell,

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

     

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