HOLT, Gordon Cyril
| Service Number: | 300 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wilcannia, New South Wales, Australia, 30 December 1894 |
| Home Town: | Cobar, Cobar, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Wincannia Catholic Convent School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | SW to head, Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, Poperinge, Belgium, 9 October 1917, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XXI, Row D, Grave No.9 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 300, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 300, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 300, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney | |
| 7 May 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 22 Dec 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 23 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 300, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , GSW buttock and left hand | |
| 16 Jan 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Company Sergeant Major, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 3 Mar 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 2nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), GSW neck (severe) | |
| 9 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, Shell wound head - fractured skull |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Charles and Ada HOLT
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
105 years ago today, at 1.40 P.M. on the 9th October 1917, 2nd Lieutenant Gordon Cyril Holt, 1st Battalion (Reg No-300), labourer (millhand on mineral separation works), from Wrightville, Cobar, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 10th Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium, Broodseinde Ridge, Battle of Poelcappelle, Passchendaele Campaign, age 22.
Born at Wilcannia, New South Wales on the 30th December 1894 to Charles (died?) and Ada Holt died 20.11.1932, Hamilton, N.S.W. of 73 and "Gordonville", 29 Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, New South Wales and 77 Broadmeadow Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W. Ada remarried as HAMILTON, date unknown, sleeping here, Gordon enlisted August 1914 with the 2nd Battalion at Randwick, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 9.8.1915 (diarrhoea).
Wounded in action - 23.7.1916 (buttock, GSW fingers, left hand, mild), 4.5.1917 (2nd Battle of Bullecourt, France, GSW neck, left ear, severe), 9.10.1917 (shrapnel got him underneath his steel helmet, shrapnel wounds on face, head, fractured skull).
Gordon is resting at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot XXI Row D Grave 9. Photos courtesy of Eddy Lin.
I have only located Mr. Holt’s name inscribed on the Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor.
Gordon’s mother Ada is sleeping in an unmarked grave, so at 1.40 P.M. on the 9th October 2017 I erected a Memorial cross adorned with poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of her son’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 2-35. 6.
Older brother Robert Russell (Bob, 35th Battalion, Reg No-1473, born 1893, Wilcannia N.S.W., of Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W. and 64 Canarys Road, Lakemba, N.S.W., applied for Gallipoli Medallion for brother, 1.8.1967, died 1971, Burwood, N.S.W.) also served 1st A.I.F.
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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