GILLESPIE, Ronald Benjamin
| Service Number: | 75 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland, April 1895 |
| Home Town: | New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 16 April 1961, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-40. 87. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 75, 3rd Field Ambulance | |
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| 25 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 75, 3rd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Rangatira embarkation_ship_number: A22 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 75, 3rd Field Ambulance, HMAT Rangatira, Brisbane | |
| 21 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 75, Army Pay Corps (AIF), 1st MD, medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember an Original Anzac who served and suffered during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago today, on the 18th April 1961, ER/Sergeant Ronald Benjamin Gillespie, Australian Pay Corps (Reg No-75), clerk from Lower Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland, father of one (Clifford Dudley, born?, died 1.10.1995, buried at Sandgate Cemetery 5.10.1995, ANGLICAN 4-252.6, age?), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 64. ANGLICAN 1-40. 87.
Born at Lower Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland about 1896 to John James, died 10.3.1935, Brisbane, Queensland, age 66, and Gertrude Gillespie nee Wardley, died 17.11.1922, Lower Bowen Terrace, New Farm, Queensland, age 48; husband of Kate Gillespie nee Taylor (married St. James' Church, Surrey, England, 19.2.1917, died 14.6.1955, Armidale, N.S.W., age?, sleeping here), Ron enlisted on the 6th September 1914 with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance at Enoggera, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland on board Transport A22 Rangatira on the 25th September 1914.
Admitted to hospital 9.2.1915 (measles & rheumatism), 9.11.1915 (bronchopneumonia), 17.3.1916 (tuberculosis of lungs, mild), 15.3.1917 (not stated).
Commenced return to Australia 8.8.1918.
Ron arrived home invalided on the 4th October 1918, being discharged medically unfit (debility & progressive loss of weight) on the 21st November 1918.
Mr. Gillespie’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Ron’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DECEASED 16-4-1961.
Officially commemorated – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
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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