GARDINER, George Wallace
| Service Number: | 2313 |
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| 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 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2313, 33rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 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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Add my storyBiography 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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