GAMBLE, Alexander Samuel
| Service Number: | 83 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 November 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, May 1893 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 16 June 1944, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-A14. 53. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Nov 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 83, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 83, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 83, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 5 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 83, 35th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
“I Once was Lost, but Now am Found”.
Served in The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
76 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 17th June 1944, Private Alexander Samuel Gamble, 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital, postal assistant & labourer (Arnott's Steam Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, N.S.W.), from Bourke Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 34 King Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., father of two, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 51. PRESBYTERIAN-A14. 53.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page10089969 - funeral notice states service.
Born at Cooks Hill, New South Wales 1893 to William John and Kate Gamble nee Hindman; husband of Ada Maud Gamble nee Murphy (married 1.5.1918 St Osmond's, Salisbury, United Kingdom, died 1919, buried CATHOLIC 1-27.7, unmarked grave, also married Dorothy Louisa Gamble nee North, married 1921, died 1968), Alexander enlisted with the 35th Battalion November 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Mr Gamble was invalided home February 1919, discharged April 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159369906
Alexander’s name has been inscribed on the Wickham Superior Public School Roll of Honour. Name not inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates.
I placed a wooden cross at Mr Gamble’s unmarked grave July 2017, now long forgotten, and submitted an application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip January 2019, and was accepted June 2019.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=4113#grave-photo-1
The gravesite is still to be completed, but a plaque had been placed December 2019 at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, N.S.W.
Older brother William John (Reg No-2134, 31st Battalion, born 1889, died 1943) also resting at the cemetery.
Lest We Forget.
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