DALZELL, Abner Gilchrist
| Service Number: | 666 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
| Born: | Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, 12 June 1887 |
| Home Town: | Latrobe, Latrobe, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Body lost at sea following aircraft accident. (DH.4A serial E8616), At sea over Bass Strait, 23 September 1920, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Tasmania (Launceston) Garden of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
| 25 May 1916: | Enlisted Private, 666, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 666, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement 666, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked 666, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 666, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 6 May 1919: | Involvement Sergeant, 666, No. 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps |
Trove newspaper article
SERGEANT DALZELL'S WAR SERVICE
A NATlVE OF TASMANIA.
Sergeant Abner Gilchrist Dalzell, of Point Cook, left in the aeroplane with
Captain Stutt, unknown to his wife and family, whose home is in Fitzroy street,
Fitzroy. Sergeant Dalzell is a native of Tasmania, but lived for many years
in Ballarat, in which district his father is a farmer. He saw three years
active service abroad, and service for six months in New Guinea, from which
he was invalided home through an attack of malaria. It was while doing
duty in the South Seas on the Berrima that Sergeant Dalzell was one of a
special raiding party that assisted in the capture of the German gunboat
Komet, now known as the Una.
For services rendered on that occasion Sergeant Dalzell was mentioned in
despatches.
While on active service Sergeant Dalzell, who is 33 years, was attached to No. 3
Aeroplane Squadron, "'B"Flight, and prior to that was attached to the Navy.
.
Last week Sergeant Dalzell was acting as orderly sergeant at Point Cook.
Sergeant Dalzell has three children, the eldest of whom is seven years.
Submitted 23 September 2018 by Elizabeth Allen
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
CWGC record his rank as Sergeant and that he was 33. He served with the Australian Flying Corps, and was awarded the MSM [Meritorious Service Medal]
CWGC have no record of his burial as at February 2018 and he is therefore, temporarily, commemorated in their virtual cemetery, the Australian Book of Remembrance.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He is a recent addition to the roll of Great War dead-he was accepted, after research, for commemoration on 7th October 2014.
Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Abner Gilchrist DALZELL was born on 12th June, 1887 in Tasmania
His parents were George Gilchrist DALZELL & Wilhelmina (Minnie) Valen MONTEITH
He married Mary Bradley ROBERTSON in 1913 in Victoria & had 3 known children
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