WILSON, Gilbert Glenloth
| Service Number: | 545 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 January 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Sale, Victoria, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Port Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Locomotive engine cleaner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 14 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 545, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 545, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 545, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 545, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 4 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Pioneer Battalion | |
| 14 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 545, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"...545 Private Gilbert Glenloth Wilson, 21st Battalion, of Port Melbourne, Vic. An engine cleaner for the Victorian Railways prior to enlistment, Pte Wilson embarked on board HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 10 May 1915. He served at Gallipoli from August 1915 until December 1915. Pte Wilson was transferred to the 2nd Pioneer Battalion and arrived in France in March 1916 being appointed Lance Corporal and then Acting Corporal in August 1916. Corporal Wilson was killed in action at Flers, France on 14 November 1916. He was 24 years of age. Corporal Wilson's brother Lieutenant Frederick Gladstone Wilson, aged 24, was killed in action at Gallipoli on 26 April 1915." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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