GARDINER, Frederick William
| Service Number: | 20 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ |
| Born: | Bunyip, Victoria, Australia, 1877 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Case Maker (Rubber Factory) |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 July 1947, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 20, 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ | |
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| 21 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 20, 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orvieto embarkation_ship_number: A3 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 20, 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ, HMAT Orvieto, Melbourne | |
| 30 Sep 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 20, 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ, RTA per Orvieto | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 20, 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Frederick William Gardiner (Service No:20) enlisted in the AIF on 17 August 1914 and embarked with 1st Light Horse Brigade HQ from Melbourne on 21 October 1914 on board HMAT A3 Orvieto. Private Gardiner embarked for the RTA on 30 September 1915 on board the Orvieto and was Discharged on 4 April 1916.
Born in 1877 in Bunyip, Gippsland Victoria, Fred was the fourth of nine children of Samuel (Harry) Henry Gardiner (b1847 in London Engalnd) and Emily Jane Fletcher (b1853 in Sussex, England). Harry (a Groom) and Emily married in 1870 in Melbourne and by the mid 1870s were living in Branxholme in the Grampians and Bunyip in Gippsland where Harry was a Coach Proprietor, Driver and Groom. By the late 1980s the family had settled in Melbourne where Harry worked as a Tram Employee.
Fred worked as a Photographer and Labourer, and in his Attestation Papers stated he served in the Boer War with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment. In 1911 Fred was a Labourer in Melbourne when he married Flora Beckwith McInnes (b1888 in Melbourne, Victoria). Fred and Flora lived and worked in Hotel Birregurra in Colac, Victoria in 1911 - Fred as a Groom and Flora as a Cook. Their marriage was troubled and in 1914 they separated when Fred enlisted in the AIF - he was working in Melbourne as a Case Maker for Dunlop Rubber Works, and Flora had worked as a Clerk, Tea Room Waitress and Nurse. Fred stated he was single on his Attestation Papers, and in 1917 the couple divorced. Fred lived in Melbourne where he worked as a Labourer, and died in 1947.