Gilbert Andrew KIRKPATRICK

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KIRKPATRICK, Gilbert Andrew

Service Number:	4150
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	39th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Beaufort, Victoria, Australia, 1883
Home Town:	Beaufort, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 2 July 1918
Cemetery:	St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block Q, Plot II, Row E, Grave No. 5, St Sever Cemetery Extension, Haute-Normandie, France, Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Abbeville, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Beaufort War Memorial

World War 1 Service

7 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 4150, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
7 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 4150, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
2 Jul 1918:	Involvement Corporal, 4150, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4150 awm_unit: 39th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-07-02

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

‘Bert’ Kirkpatrick was born during 1883 at Stockyard Hill, near Beaufort, Victoria, to Scottish pioneer parents George Kirkpatrick and Janet Glendinning. He married Ruby Gillespie in 1913 and they had one child, Eric, when he enlisted at the age of 32 at Ballarat in December 1915. When he embarked in March 1916, his wife, Ruby, was expecting their second child, Francis, who was born five months later. In France, Bert was gassed, suffered a hernia and after 2 years at war he received he was mortally wounded by a gunshot to the head on the 24 June 1918 and died a week later on the 2 July 1918. He was buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen. He served for quite some time in the 2nd Anzac Cycling Battalion and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery at some time during 1917. Bert's brother, George, had also enlisted, but died in the Fargo Military Hospital, England, of broncho pneumonia soon after arrival. Bert’s two sons enlisted for WW2, the youngest, Francis, who he never met, served with the 2/22nd Battalion and was a POW on the Japanese ship "Montevidio Maru". Francis was drowned when the ship was sunk by an American submarine on the 1 July 1942.

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