GREGORY, Ernest
| Service Number: | 177 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 41st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cornwall, England., 1887 |
| Home Town: | Loganlea, Logan, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Nine Elms British Cemetery III. D. 10. Personal Inscription: JESUS IN HIS TENDER CARE WILL GUARD OUR LOVED ONE LYING HERE , Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinghe, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brisbane 41st Battalion Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 18 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 177, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Demosthenes embarkation_ship_number: A64 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 177, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Demosthenes, Sydney | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 177, 41st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 177 awm_unit: 41st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 30 and the son of George and Christiana Gregory, of Venn Farm, St. Ives, Liskeard, Cornwall, England.
Births Jun 1887 Gregory Ernest Liskeard 5c 46.
Nine Elms British Cemetery, Belgium. The cemetery was begun and used by the 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations when they moved to Poperinghe (now Poperinge), from Brandhoek and Lijssenthoek respectively, in September 1917. Nearly all the burials in Plots I to IX came from these Casualty Clearing Stations, whilst they operated in this area during the 1917 Battle of Ypres, up until December 1917. Plots X, XI, XIII, XIV and XV cover the dates between the beginning of March, 1918 and the 12th October, 1918, the period of the German offensive in Flanders, the British counter attacks and the final advance of August-September. The burials in these cases were carried out almost entirely by fighting units. The cemetery contains 1,556 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 37 German war graves from this period. There are also 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
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