GILBERT, William Thomas
| Service Number: | 1136 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1916, 4 yrs senior Cadets |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales , 17 April 1898 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Junior porter |
| Died: | Railway Street, Merewether, New South Wales, 14 September 1962, aged 64 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) G SW. 32. |
| Memorials: | Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, 4 yrs senior Cadets | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Dec 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, Exhaustion and shell shock | |
| 4 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, GSW left arm | |
| 25 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1136, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
59 years ago today, on the 17th September 1962, Private William Thomas Gilbert, 35th Battalion (Reg No-1136), junior porter from Railway Street, Merewether, New South Wales, father of two (Vera & Pat), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 65. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) G SW. 32.
Born at Cooks Hill, New South Wales on the 17th April 1897 to Thomas James and Sarah Catherine Gilbert; husband of Ruby Vera Gilbert nee Grigg (married 1927, Hamilton, N.S.W., died?), William enlisted January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 16.6.1917 (exhaustion, shell shock, Battle of Messines), 21.7.1917 (influenza).
Wounded in action - 4.4.1918 (GSW left arm).
Invalided to UK 7.4.1918.
William returned home April 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 25th May 1919.
Mr. Gilbert’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Merewether (Glebe) Methodist Church Honor Roll, The Junction Soldiers' Memorial, Newcastle South (Junction) Public School Roll of Honour (photo, unveiled on the 13th December 1918, 218 names originally inscribed, 220 names now inscribed, 36 Fallen) and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
William’s headstone inscription proudly tells us of his service with the 35th Battalion, 1st A.I.F., and I have placed poppies in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King and Country.
Lest We Forget.
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