George Wallace GARDINER

GARDINER, George Wallace

Service Number: 2313
Enlisted: 25 February 1916
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 33rd Infantry Battalion
Born: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1886
Home Town: Manilla, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Wheelwright
Died: Wickham, New South Wales, Australia, 16 October 1935, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
CATHOLIC No. 2-38-54
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World War 1 Service

25 Feb 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion
17 Oct 1916: Involvement Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Oct 1916: Embarked Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney
6 May 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), GSW left forearm
15 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele, GSW right hand
9 Apr 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, SW to face and left tibia
14 Feb 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, wounded thrice

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
 
“We Once were Lost, but Now are Found”.

The Gardiner brothers, George Wallace Gardiner, 33rd Battalion (Reg No-2313) and younger brother Frederick Norbert Gardiner 9th Australian Machine Gun Company (Reg No-229, 36th Battalion), from Arthur Street, Manilla, New South Wales and 218 Hannell Street, Wickham, N.S.W., who were resting together in an unmarked grave at Sandgate Cemetery, are now officially commemorated with a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip.

Wooden crosses erected - 28.7.2019 and ‎23.11.‎2019.
Honour and dignity restored.

Many thanks to Phil Winney and members of Merewether - Hamilton - Adamstown sub-Branch for the purchase of death certificates.

Lest we forget

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