GRADWELL, Louis
| Service Number: | 1128 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bradford England, September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Minmi, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Dora Creek, New South Wales, Australia, 16 July 1930, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-148. 39. |
| Memorials: | Dora Creek WW1 Honour Roll, Minmi Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1128, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 1128, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Corporal, 1128, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 27 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1128, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD (MU - dyspepsia) Was promoted to Corporal briefly in October 1916 but reverted to ranks at own request. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
90 years ago today, on the Thursday of the 17th July 1930, Private Louis Gradwell, 35th Battalion, labourer from Back Creek, Minmi, New South Wales and Airedale Poultry Farm, Dora Creek, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age about 36. ANGLICAN 2-148. 39.
No death or funeral notice located.
Born at Bradford, England about 1894 to Herbert (Harry) A - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122219617 and Edith Gradwell; husband of Lillian May Gradwell nee Smith (married 1919, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1961 as HENRY, also sleeping here), Louis enlisted December 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137104294
Admitted to hospital 27.9.1916 (influenza), 23.2.1917 (mumps), 7.4.1917 (gastritis), Mr Gradwell returned home November 1917, discharged medically unfit (dyspepsia), 27th December 1917.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138149662
Louis’s name has been inscribed on the Minmi Roll of Honour (photos, unveiled on the 21st December 1917 - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138736809), Dora Creek First World War Honour Roll and the Morisset RSL Honour Roll.
The headstone inscription gives no indication that Louis served with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies at Mr Gradwell’s gravesite to honour his service for God, King and Country.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=10276#grave-photo-1
Lest We Forget.
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