Gilbert Aberdein HARVEY

HARVEY, Gilbert Aberdein

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Captain
Last Unit: Unspecified British Units
Born: Adelaide, South Australia, 22 June 1886
Home Town: North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling: Queens School North Adelaide, Adelaide University, South Australia
Occupation: Medical Officer Adelaide Children's Hospital
Died: Died of wounds, France, 25 November 1917, aged 31 years
Cemetery: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun
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Memorials: The Adelaide Club Great War Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

25 Nov 1917: Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain, Officer, Unspecified British Units

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of James and Maud Harvey, of Adelaide, Of Wellington Square, North Adelaide, South Australia; husband of Elspeth M. Dudgeon (formerly Harvey).

Royal Army Medical Corps attached 1st Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment British Army

On 29 September 1917, whilst on leave in Cornwall, he married Elspeth Young. On 25 November 1917, less than two months after his marriage, Capt Harvey was killed in action in France.

MARRIAGES.
HARVEY—YOUNG.—On the 29th September, at Statton, Bude, Cornwall, England, Capt. Gilbert Aberdein Harvey, R.A.M.O. elder son of the late James Harvey, of 58 Wellington square, North Adelaide, to Elspeth, elder daughter of Mr. George and the Hon. Mrs. Young, of Bude, Cornwell.

Commemorated on headstone at North Road Anglican Cemetery

Five hundred pounds was presented to the Adelaide Children's Hospital by the widow of Dr. Gilbert Aberdein Harvey, who a few years agp was resident medical officer of the hospital. 800 guineas of which endowed a cot to his memory, and the balance of £185 entitles Mrs. Harvey to a life governorship. - 4 November 1919

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