Edward Patrick GILLETT

GILLETT, Edward Patrick

Service Number: 81
Enlisted: 22 December 1916
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: Railway Unit (AIF)
Born: Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, 14 April 1889
Home Town: Auburn, Auburn, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Locomotive Fireman
Died: Illness, Adelaide, South Australia, 26 October 1919, aged 30 years
Cemetery: AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board
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World War 1 Service

22 Dec 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private
7 Feb 1917: Involvement Corporal, 81, Railway Unit (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Feb 1917: Embarked Corporal, 81, Railway Unit (AIF), HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney
26 Oct 1919: Involvement Corporal, 81, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 81 awm_unit: 6th Australian Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1919-10-26
Date unknown: Wounded 81

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Edward Patrick GILLETT, (Service Number 81) was born on 14 April 1889 at Cowra. He commenced working for the NSWGR on the last day of 1907 as a cleaner at Picton Locomotive Depot. In 1910 he became a fireman, at first based at Hamilton but later at Picton, Eveleigh and Clyde. At the end of 1916 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces and he enlisted in the AIF at the

He was attached to the 6th Australian Broad-Gauge Railway Operating Company. He spent the next year driving trains in France.

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Edward Patrick GILLETT (Service Number 81) was born on 14th April 1889 at Cowra. He commenced working for the NSW Government Railways 31st December 1907 as a cleaner at Picton Locomotive Depot. In 1910 he became a fireman, at first based at Hamilton but later at Picton, Eveleigh and Clyde. At the end of 1916 he was granted leave to join the Expeditionary Forces and he enlisted in the AIF at the RAS Showgrounds, Sydney. He was not married.

He left Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Wiltsire’ on 7th February 1917. He arrived at Devonport (England) on 11th April. On 14th May he went to France, attached to the 6th Australian Broad-Gauge Railway Operating Company. He spent the next year driving trains in France.

He was reprimanded for wilful defiance of censorship regulations, to wit, having letters containing military information posted in the civil post office at Calais.

He had periods of leave in England, Nice and Paris. He returned to Australia aboard the troop ship ‘Karmala’ in July 1919. He was admitted to the ship’s hospital on 6th August with bronchitis, although the note in his file includes ‘?TB’.

He was ill enough that he was taken off the ship at Adelaide on 15th August and admitted to No. 7 Australian General Hospital, Keswick, where he died on 26th October 1919. He is buried in West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide.

- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

 

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