GETTINGBY, John
| Service Number: | 1005 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lorue, Co Antrim, Ireland, April 1871 |
| Home Town: | Wagin, Wagin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Government Hospital, Wagin, WA, 1 November 1932, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Wagin Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement 1005, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked 1005, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Served for 19 years in the Royal Garrison Artillery
Captain John Gettingby died on Tuesday, 1st November, at the Wagin hospital, aged 64. He was well known in the A.I.F., enlisting at Blackboy Hill in 1914. Appointed to the 28th Battalion, he left W.A. as regimental sergeant major of that unit in 1915. In France he became lieutenant and quartermaster and was invalided home in 1918, with a step in rank.
Captain Gettingby was born in Ireland, and joined the British Army as a lad, serving for 21 years in Egypt, Africa, India and China. Upon discharge in 1907 he entered business but migrated to W.A. with his family in 1912, when he took up land at Tarin Rock, East Wagin. He unsuccessfully sought election to Parliament at Wagin in 1921.
He left a widow, four sons and a daughter.
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