Alan Keats GORDON

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Service Number:	3324
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

3 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3324, 4th Infantry Battalion
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

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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.