GORDON, George Lambert
| Service Number: | 6301 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 May 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Portland Estate, South Australia, 15 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Five Dock, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Slater, tiler & shingler |
| Died: | GSW right leg, 41st Casualty Clearing Station, Demiun, France, 10 April 1918, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 23 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6301, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 6301, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 6301, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 10 Apr 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 6301, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 6301 awm_unit: 18 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-10 |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 10th April 1918, Corporal George Lambert Gordon, 18th Battalion (Reg No-6301), slater, tiler & shingler from East Street, Five Dock, New South Wales, father of one (George Robert Bruce, born 2.11.1916, Burwood, N.S.W., died 2.10.1981, age 64), Died of Wounds at the 41st Casualty Clearing Station, Namps-au-Val, France, age 26.
Born at Portland Estate, Port Adelaide, South Australia on the 15th November 1891 to John Bruce (died 15.1.1939, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 71, not listed on Sandgate Cemetery database or Find a Grave website) of 25A Brown Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., and Esther Anna Gordon nee Lambert (Annie, died 13.10.1948, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 78, mother of 5, not listed on Sandgate Cemetery database or Find a Grave website) of 25A Brown Street, Newcastle, N.S.W.; husband of Catherine Gordon nee Barclay (married 1915, Burwood, N.S.W., remarried to Roy Wesberg Jones, 21.1.1922, died 14.8.1974, age 76, Catherine died 1.9.1969, Kogarah, N.S.W., age 74) from "Clyde", Burwood Road, Concord, New South Wales, George enlisted on the 26th June 1916 at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A29 Suevic on the 11th November 1916.
Granted leave to England from 19.2.1918 to 5.3.1918.
Wounded in action - 9.4.1918 (GSW right leg, Villers-Bretonneux).
George is resting at Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France. Plot II Row A Grave 23.
Place of Association - Concord, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Gordon’s name has been inscribed on the Concord War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Gordon gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son George for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 2-41. 49.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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