2435 Gilbert TURNER

*True name HAHN, Louis Gilbert
Date of enlistment 10th July 1915
Rank at enlistment Private
Company C Company
Significant events while with the AIF Killed in Action – Pozieres

Hospitalised sick

cwgcCommemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

 

Summary of Private Turner’s WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455

Date Location Event
5th August 1916 France Killed in Action
26th March 1916 France Disembarked Marseille
19th March 1916 Egypt Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle
8th January 1916 Egypt Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir
27th November 1915 Egypt Discharged from hospital
30th October 1915 Egypt Admitted Luna Park Hospital – diarrhoea
25th October 1915 Egypt Disembarked Alexandria
29th September 1915 Australia Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley
3rd August 1915 Australia Assigned to 5th Reinforcements 22nd Battalion
19th July 1915 Australia Marched into Broadmeadows depot

 

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