Gordon Samuel WOOLLEY

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Service Numbers:	1068, 1201
Enlisted:	11 August 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Hobart, Tasmania
Schooling:	Queens College, Hobart, Tasmania
Occupation:	Dairy Farmer
Died:	Killed in action, Pozieres, France, 5 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

11 Aug 1914:	Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), 1068
19 Aug 1914:	Embarked Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), 1068, Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A35 Berrima
4 Mar 1915:	Discharged Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), 1068, Time expired
30 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1201, 26th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas.
29 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 1201, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 1201, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
4 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, 1201, 26th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Embarked for Gallipoli
5 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, 1201, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , Killed in action

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