LAMPARD, Gordon
| Service Number: | 1382 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Apsley, Victoria, Australia, 4 January 1890 |
| Home Town: | Balmoral, Southern Grampians, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia, 20 March 1981, aged 91 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Wangaratta Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1382, 14th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1382, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1382, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Gordon Lampard was one of four sons of George and Mary Ann Lampard of Balmoral, Victoria who served with the AIF during WW1. All four brothers served mostly with the 14th Battalion.
Gordon’s younger brother, 1974 Pte. John Lampard 14th Battalion AIF died of wounds at sea off the coast of Gallipoli on 12 August 1915, aged 24.
His older brother, 734 Pte. Glen Thomas Lampard, 14th Battalion AIF, was killed by a shell at Pozieres on 10 August 1916, aged 28. Gordon Lampard and James Lampard of the same unit were both wounded during the same action.
Gordon enlisted in 1914 and was present at the Anzac landing on 25 April 1915. He served right through the whole campaign until the evacuation, which was a rare feat.
He was wounded in the back by a piece of shrapnel at Pozieres on 10 August 1916, and evacuated to England. He was in hospital for well over four months.
Gordon was posted to the Australian Provost Corps in England and on 30 June 1917 he was married to Florence Ada Copson in Wiltshire, England.
He continued serving in the Provost Corps and was not sent back to France, and was eventually returned to Australia in late 1918 with a ‘disordered action of the heart’ and a new wife.
Gordon applied for the Gallipoli medal in 1967, “as I am an original Anzac who was on the landing of Gallipoli and was never away from my unit during the campaign, I wish to know where I have to apply for the Simpson and donkey badge, I saw him on plenty of occasions in Shrapnel Gully….”
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