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GORDON, George Valentine
| Service Number: | 19182 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 July 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
| Born: | Hammond, South Australia, 27 July 1887 |
| Home Town: | Port Lincoln, Port Lincoln, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Methodist Training College, Brighton, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Methodist Minister |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 23 February 1928, aged 40 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
West Terrace Cemetery (AIF Section) Section: LO, Road: 3N, Site No: 6 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 19182, Army Medical Corps (AIF) | |
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| 21 Mar 1918: | Involvement Private, 19182, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Mar 1918: | Embarked Private, 19182, Army Medical Corps (AIF), HMAT Persic, Sydney | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 19182 | |
| 29 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 19182, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1, embarked Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Rio Negro (Nursing Staff) | |
| 16 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 19182, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of four brothers to serve in WWI, Private George Valentine Gordon (Service No:19182) enlisted in the AIF on 6 July 1917, and was attached to Army Medical Corps 17th Reinforcements on 21 March 1918 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney NSW for London on board RMS Persic. Private Gordon served in France, and was hospitalised with Influenza before embarking from Devonport for Melbourne on 29 May 1919 on board HT Rio Negro as Nursing Staff. Private Gordon was attached to 2nd Australian General Hospital (AGH) Army Medical Corps (AMC) at Discharge on 16 August 1919.
George was born in Hammond, South Australia in 1887, second of six children of George Carlyle Gordon (b1861 at Beautiful Valley, South Australia) and Amy Susannah Howe (b1866 in Chinkford, Gilbert, South Australia). George Snr (a Blacksmith) and Amy married in 1884 in Hammond, and lived there before moving to Carrieton and then Balaklava, where they raised their family and George Snr was a Blacksmith and Inventor - he patented improvements to winnowing and grain cleaning machinery in the early 1900s. The family had settled in Port Lincoln by 1912.
George worked as a Methodist Minister before enlisting in the AIF in 1917. Following his Discharge, George worked in Prospect as a Driver and Railway Labourer and in 1926 in Adelaide, married Lily Gertrude Whibley (nee Reynolds; b1885 in Hindmarsh, South Australia). George and Lily settled in Prospect, where George died in 1928. George had several run-ins with the law prior to his death - according to witness statements 'He had not been the same man, mentally, since he returned from War' (Trove 1926 - Frederick W Octoman; Builder). His wife Lily described George as '.... the most honourable man she had ever met. he had certain religious ideas, but she thought his state of mind was caused by the worry of lack of money and employment' (Trove; 1927). Lily died in 1968.
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