JAESCHKE, Gerald Victor
| Service Number: | 7027 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2 October 1899 |
| Home Town: | Bakers Hill, Northam, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farm Hand |
| Died: | 1980, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Bakers Hill Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7027, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 7027, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 7027, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Berrima, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Alexander Victor Gerald Jaeschke was just under 17 years of age when he enlisted. The Intelligence Section of the Army had signed off on the “score of nationality” in a note on his enlistment form. He arrived in England in early 1917. He was wounded in action during October 1917 and again in April 1918. He was awarded a Military Medal and Bar during his service in 1918. The are no details of his first award but his second award was for stretcher bearing on August 8 1918, aged 18, near Morcourt, when he spent a whole day dressing wounds, and evacuating wounded men, whilst under heavy machine gun fire the whole time. He returned to Western Australia after the war and changed his name to Gerald Victor Delane.