GAVEGAN, Val
| Service Numbers: | 3810, 3180 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Bollon, Queensland, Australia, 26 November 1891 |
| Home Town: | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Brisbane Central Boys State School, Queensland, Australia |
| Occupation: | Telegraph Line Repairman |
| Died: | Southport, Queensland, Australia, 5 December 1976, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Queensland Garden of Remembrance (Pinnaroo), Qld |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3810, 2nd Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 31 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3810, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3810, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Brisbane | |
| 20 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Corporal, 3180 | |
| 27 Jan 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 3810, 2nd Pioneer Battalion, per HMAT Burmah | |
| 28 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3810, 2nd Pioneer Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Val Delorme Gavegan was the 4th of 13 children of Francis Joseph Gavegan and Alice Maude Kay. Val was born in 1891 in Bollon, QLD and was employed as a Telegraph Repair Linesman when he enlisted in the AIF in Hughenden, QLD in 1915. Val serv ed with the 2nd Pioneer Battallion until his Medical Discharge in 1919 - he had received severe Gun Shot Wounds to an arm and both legs in France in 1918.
Val's brothers Percy and John served in the Australian Defence Forces. On his return from WWI, Val lived in Brisbane, QLD and worked as a Labourer, Meat Worker and Furnaceman until his death in 1976 in Southport, QLD
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