Reginald William GELME

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GELME, Reginald William

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Royal Engineers
Born:	Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia, 28 May 1894
Home Town:	Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling:	Sydney Grammar School and University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Engineer
Died:	Illness, Mesopotamia, 27 July 1916, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Basra War Cemetery
Memorials:	Mosman St. Luke's Anglican Church Memorial Panels, Mosman War Memorial, Sydney Grammar School WW1 Honour Board, Sydney University War Memorial Carillon and Honour Rolls

World War 1 Service

15 Jan 1916:	Promoted British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers
12 Apr 1916:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force
27 Jul 1916:	Involvement Other Commonwealth Forces, Second Lieutenant , Officer, Royal Engineers

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Biography contributed by John Bryan

One of three graduate engineers from Sydney University, who with Edwin Octavius Hutchinson, also from Mosman, and William Edward Pike, embarked for England on 23 November 1915 on board HMAT Ceramic A40, after being accepted for commissions in the British Army.

He was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 15 January 1916. Following further training he was appointed in April 1916 to a Royal Engineers unit with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.

He died of disease at Basrah on 27 July 1916.

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