GLOVER, George Frederick
| Service Number: | 4314 |
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| Enlisted: | 28 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lefroy, Tasmania, Australia, 26 November 1896 |
| Home Town: | Tunnel, Northern, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 25 August 1918, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 28 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4314, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4314, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4314, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
George Glover was one of four sons of William and Selena Glover of Tunnel, Tasmania who served during WW1. The father William was a well-known miner at Beaconsfield and sadly died of miner’s consumption early in 1917, whilst four of his boys were on active service overseas. George’s older brother 6078 Pte. Jack Glover, also of the 12th Battalion, was killed in action at Second Bullecourt in early May 1917, aged 22.
George worked on the Cliftons mine at South Mount Cameron from a boy until he enlisted. He left Australia with the 12th Battalion AIF in early 1916, aged 19.
George was twice wounded, shrapnel wounds to the hands in early 1917 and again in the hand in Belgium during October 1917.
He returned to the 12th Battalion during May 1918 and he was killed in action on 25 August 1918 in France when he was hit in the head by a sniper’s bullet.
His other two brothers, Alfred and Leslie Glover, both returned to Australia during 1919.
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