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

Commemorated 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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