GIBSON, Francis Walter
| Service Number: | 857 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moruya, New South Wales, Australia, 22 October 1892 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli , 6 August 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC Special Memorial, Row C, Grave 35 Chaplain Rev. J.C. McPhee officiated Headstone inscription reads: Their glory shall not be blotted out |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial, Newcastle Wharf Labourers Union Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 857, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Randwick, NSW | |
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| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 857, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 857, 2nd Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 857, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of John and Eva Gibson of 57 Council Street, Newcatle, NSW
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
105 years ago today, on the 6th August 1915, the August Offensive began on the Gallipoli Peninsula, the last major attempt made by the Allied forces to break the stalemate that had persisted since the landings on the 25th April 1915.
4 soldiers who fell on this day at the Battle of Lone Pine are memorialised, or awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
Private Francis Walter Gibson, 2nd Battalion, wharf labourer from 51 Council Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, fell during the Battle of Lone Pine, and is resting at Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. Sp. Mem Row C Grave 35.
https://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/R1730173/
Mr Gibson’s name has been inscribed on the Gardner Memorial, Book of Gold, and the Newcastle Wharf Labourers' Union Roll of Honour.
There is no headstone at his mother’s gravesite to tell us of the supreme sacrifice of her son, so I placed a memorial cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite January 2018, taken a photo of the memorialised grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service. BAPTIST-J SW. 29.
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