Edward GEE

GEE, Edward

    Service Number: 661
    Enlisted: 18 August 1914, Enlisted at Helena Vale,WA
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 11th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Oxford, England, 1890
    Home Town: Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia
    Schooling: Bedford House School, Oxford, England
    Occupation: Railway Employee
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 28 June 1915
    Cemetery: Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula
    Plot 11, Row G, Grave 21 Chaplain J.C. McPhee officiated,
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bornholm Elleker-Youngs District War Memorial, Bornholm Kronkup & District Honour Roll, Bornholm Memorial Shields, Boulder Goldfields First Enlistments WWI Roll of Honor
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    World War 1 Service

    18 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 661, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Helena Vale,WA
    2 Nov 1914: Involvement Private, 661, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
    2 Nov 1914: Embarked Private, 661, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Arrived in Australia aged 20 years

    Address at the time of enlistment C/- Transcontinental Railway Line, WA

    Son of Charles William Seaborne Gee and Isabelle Gee of Fairbank Farm, Roturoa, NZ formerly of Oxford, England. Brother of Arthur Gee of Fremantle, WA who returned to Australia on 28 January 1916 having served with the 11th Battalion

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Had previously served with the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars for about 4 years

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