GIBSON, Roderick Glen
| Service Number: | 3177 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 49th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 21 November 1894 |
| Home Town: | Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tanner |
| Died: | Killed in action, Dernancourt, France, 5 April 1918, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Marchant Park Memorial Gates, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3177, 49th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3177, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3177, 49th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 5 Apr 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 3177, 49th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3177 awm_unit: 49th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-05 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of William Douglas and Mary Jack Gibson of Kedron, Brisbane, Queensland. He was a tanner, as was his father and some brothers.
Roderick left Australia a few days before Christmas 1916 and arrived in England during March 1917. He did some training in England before he joined the 49th Battalion in Belgium during August 1917. He was promoted to Corporal later in the year.
According to his Red Cross wounded and missing file, Roderick was seen to be killed by machine gun fire when the 49th Battalion was making an advance near Dernancourt, to push back German troops who had broken through the Australian front lines earlier in the morning of 5 April 1918.
All of his personal belongings were lost on the transport ‘Barunga’, when on its way to Australia, the vessel was sunk by a German submarine later in 1918.
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