Gawler Hughes ASHTON

ASHTON, Gawler Hughes

Service Numbers: 418, Officer
Enlisted: 24 August 1915, C Company Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 11th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born: Snowtown, South Australia, 11 November 1889
Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Railway Station Manager
Died: North Adelaide, South Australia, 19 May 1967, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: West Terrace Cemetery (General)
Road 1 South, Path 25E, Site 11
Memorials: Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Port Wakefield Memorial Arch, Rose Park Gartrell Memorial Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Tusmore Burnside District Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

24 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 418, 43rd Infantry Battalion, C Company Adelaide, South Australia
9 Jun 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 418, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: ''
1 Aug 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 43rd Infantry Battalion
8 Aug 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 11th Light Trench Mortar Battery, "The Last Hundred Days"
Date unknown: Wounded

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Biography

Married to Millicent Mildred Ashton of Swain Avenue Rose Park

Railway Station Master

 

Enlisted into 43rd Infantry Battalion C Company as CQMS Company Quarert Master Sergeant

43 Battalion

Transferred to 11th Trench Mortar Battery

Rank - Lt. Mentioned in despatches

4 July 1917 - Wounded in action. Gusnshot wound to the left shoulder; invalided to England

26 November 1919 - Returned on board HMAT Morea

19 January 1920 - Discharged

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Son of Albert Gawler and Mary (formerly Cornish nee Brereton). Husband of Millicent Mildred Ashton (nee Day). Married in the Methodist Church, Adelaide on 8 May 1916.

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