John Woodside GIBSON

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Service Number:	350
Enlisted:	29 August 1914, Enlisted at Brisbane
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Landour, India, 21 October 1887
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 31, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

29 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 350, Enlisted at Brisbane
24 Sep 1914:	Involvement Private, 350, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: ''
24 Sep 1914:	Embarked Private, 350, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane

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Son of Archibald F and Caroline C.W. Gibson of 976 Esquimalt Road, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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

Also served in the Canadian Militia