Bruce MacIntosh GILCHRIST

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GILCHRIST, Bruce MacIntosh

Service Number:	NX191442
Enlisted:	28 March 1941
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia , 5 November 1920
Home Town:	Chatswood, Willoughby, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Died at sea (Montevideo Maru), South China Sea, 1 July 1942, aged 21 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Commemorated: - Panel 4. Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul, Papua New Guinea.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Rabaul Memorial, Rabaul Montevideo Maru Memorial

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Sergeant, NX191442
28 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, NX191442

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Arthur Alexander Gilchrist and Florence Maud Gilchrist, of Chatswood, New South Wales.

Sergeant Gilchrist was in charge of the Anti Aircraft gun that fired the first shot in action on Australian territory Sunday 4th January 1942 against Japanese attack bombers in Battle of Rabaul.
Sergeant Gilchrist was last seen with escaping soldiers and Anti Aircraft squadron at Adler Bay, Saturday 31st January 1942. They had decided to surrender. Captured at Warangoi River.

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