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GILBERT, Frank Roy
| Service Number: | 2083 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 40th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Woodside , date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Nairne, Mount Barker, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 30 April 1919, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 2083, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 2083, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2083, 40th Infantry Battalion |
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Frank Roy Gilbert, just like thousands of other Australian men, enlisted in the war effort to support their country.
He was born in the eastern suburb of Woodside near Adelaide, South Australia either in 1894 or 1895; it is not identified in his records in which year he was born. Later, his family moved not far from where he was born, to Nairne. Before Frank joined the army, he was a labourer but it is not known what type of labourer. His next of kin was his mother, Isabel Gilbert.
Frank embarked with his unit, the 43rd Australian Infantry Battalion on the 28th of August 1916 onboard the HMAT A68 Anchises. The ship was bound for England from where the men would be sent to fight in France. The Battalion was a South Australian based Battalion located at the Morphettville Racecourse, consisting of volunteers living in South Australia/ Adelaide, hence why Frank was part of it.
Before reaching the battlefield of the Western Front, the battalion endured a serious case of the mumps while still in training but it is unknown if Frank suffered from the epidemic. After the outbreak, during December of 1916, the battalion, including Frank, reached the battlefields of the Western Front.
Despite his records showing that Frank Roy Gilbert was wounded several times in France, it is evident that he survived the war, returning home on the 30th of April 1919. Records also state that he married and it appears that he later served in World War 2.
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