Victor Robert GIBSON

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GIBSON, Victor Robert

Service Numbers:	1144, 1133
Enlisted:	14 September 1914, Bendigo, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	60th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Coleraine, Victoria, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Pastry Cook
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916
Cemetery:	Ration Farm Military Cemetery, la Chapelle-D'Armentieres Plot VI, Row J, Grave 45
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendigo Great War Roll of Honor, Hamilton Borough of Hamilton Roll of Honour, Hamilton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

14 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1144, Depot Battalion (AIF), Bendigo, Victoria
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1144, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
5 Apr 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for M.E.F Gallipoli per H.M.T. "Clan McGillivray"
25 Apr 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Gallipoli, Turkey
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
6 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Krithia (Second)
6 Aug 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli
7 Jan 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Alexandria, Egypt -- Gallipoli Evacuation ex H.M.T. "Empress of Britain"
26 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1133, 8th Infantry Battalion, With Unit -- Tel El Kebir, Egypt
24 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 60th Infantry Battalion, T.O.S. from 8th Infantry Battalion
26 Apr 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 60th Infantry Battalion, Appointed
18 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1133, 60th Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Kinfauns Castle"
29 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1133, 60th Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Marseilles, France
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1133, 60th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1133 awm_unit: 60th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-19
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1133, 60th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed In Action

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

Statement, 1750 Pte E.W. HAVERFIELD, 60th Bn, 13 September 1917:

'When I was lying out wounded in No Man's Land on the 19th July at Fleurbaix, I saw Casualty lying down near me wounded. We were then about 130 yards from all our lines. I heard him call out "I have stopped a couple more", which meant that he was twice hit as he lay on the gorund. It was quite a common occurrence that night, as many a wounded man was killed. The last I heard or saw of him was that night. It became too dark to see. I managed to crawl back to the lines.'

Source: AWM Red Cross file

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