GABRIEL, John August Herman
| Service Numbers: | 2574A, 2574 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1916, 5th Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Boonah, Queensland, Australia, 22 March 1889 |
| Home Town: | Boonah, Scenic Rim, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2574A, 41st Infantry Battalion, 5th Reinforcements | |
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| 17 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2574A, 41st Infantry Battalion, ex Brisbane per HMAT 55 Kyara | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 2574, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 2574, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
John was the eldest of five children of Johan August Hermann Gabriel (b1838 in Germany) and his second wife Augusta (Ulrike) Louise Ulrike Frieberg (nee Lubke; b1867 in Germany). Johan arrived in Brisbane QLD with his family in 1878 on board the Lammershagen, and was Naturalised at Boonah, Ipswich QLD in 1880. Ulrike arrived with her first husband and family in 1881. Following the deaths of their first spouses, Johan and Ulrike married in 1888 in Boonah, Ipswich QLD where hey raised their family and Johan was a Farmer.
John was a Farm Labourer in Boonah, Ipswich when he enlisted in the AIF (Private; Service No:2574A) in July 1916. He was attached to 5/41st Battalion when he embarked from Brisbane on 17 November 1916, and 'Failed to re-embark at Fremantle but since apprehended and fined ... (National Archives Australia). John embarked in Fremantle in December 1916 per A35 Berrima. He was KiA in Belgium in September 1917.
In 1920, shortly before her death, his mother Ulrike wrote to the Army "I beg you to put me a cross on the grave ... and underneath the cross the words In memory of the Dearly Loved son of Mrs U Gabriel of Templin aged 28 years' (National Archives Australia).
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