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GELME, Reginald William
Service Number: | Officer |
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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 | |
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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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Add my storyBiography 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.