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GORDON, William Hamilton
| Service Number: | 3030 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Carrieton South Australia, 27 March 1892 |
| Home Town: | Port Lincoln, Port Lincoln, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Yongala Primary School, Carrieton, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Blacksmith |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 October 1948, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Memorial Park, Victoria, Australia |
| Memorials: | Port Lincoln & District Honor Roll WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 22 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3030, 10th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 3030, 10th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 3030, 10th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Adelaide | |
| 5 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3030, 50th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 30 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3030, 13th Machine Gun Company, France - gassed | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 3030, 4th Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 5 Apr 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3030, 4th Machine Gun Battalion, embarked London for Adelaide on board HT Warwickshire | |
| 8 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3030, 4th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
With his three older brothers (Lionel, George and Sydney), Private William Hamilton Gordon (Service No:3030) served in WWI, enlisting in the AIF on 22 May 1915. He was attached to 10th Infantry Battalion on 2 September 1915 when he embarked with his Unit from Adelaide for Suez on board HMAT A68 Anchises. Private Gordon served in Egypt, Lemanos Island, France and Belgium (NAA) with 50th Infantry Battalion and 13 Machine Gun Coy, and was attached to 4th Machine Gun Battalion on 5 April 1919 when he embarked from London for Adelaide on board HT Warwickshire. Private Gordon was attached to 4th Machine Gun Battalion at Discharge on 18 July 1919.
Fourth of six children, William was born in Carrieton, South Australia in 1892 to George Carlyle Gordon (b1861 at Beautiful Valley, South Australia) and Amy Susannah Howe (b1866 in Chinkford, Gilbert, South Australia). George and Amy married in 1884 in Hammond, and lived there and in Carrieton, Balaklava and Port Lincoln, where they raised their family and George was a Blacksmith and Inventor (patented a winnowing and grain cleaning macchine).
William worked as a Blacksmith in Port Lincoln before enlisting in the AIF in 1915. Following his Discharge, William joined the South Australian Police on 1 October 1919 as a Police Constable in Adelaide where, in 1922, he married Gladys Irene Homburg (b1896 in Stepney, South Australia). William and Gladys lived in Iron Knob, Largs Bay and Adelaide, where they raised their family and William was a Policeman - Mounted Constable. In 1941 William was in Melbourne, where he was a Munutions Worker with the Department of Munitions until his death in 1948. Gladys died in 1980.