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GORDON, Alan Keats
Personal Details
Service Number: | 3324 |
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Enlisted: | 3 August 1915 |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Lancefield, Victoria, Australia, October 1892 |
Home Town: | Lindfield, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales |
Schooling: | North Sydney Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Clerk |
Died: | Died of wounds, France, 2 September 1916 |
Cemetery: |
Etaples Military Cemetery Plot X, Row B, Grave No. 9. |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lindfield St David's Uniting Church WW1 Memorial Windows, Lindfield St. David's Uniting Church Roll of Honour |
Service History
World War 1 Service
3 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3324, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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13 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3324, 4th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
13 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3324, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Sydney | |
2 Sep 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 3324, 4th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3324 awm_unit: 4th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-09-02 |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Alan Keats Gordon was severely wounded in the head on the 17 August 1916, during the fighting to capture Mouquet Farm.
He held on for over a fornight before he died of wounds in a hospital at Le Touquet on the French coast near Etaples.