Regimental number | 1007 |
Place of birth | Welborough, Tasmania |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Welborough, Tasmania |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 23 |
Height | 5' 5" |
Weight | 134 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, William Gardiner, Welborough, Tasmania |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 26th Battalion, C Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/43/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 26th Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Age at death from cemetery records | 23 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 107 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: William and Edith GARDINER, Welborough, Tasmania |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked from Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 4 September 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 9 January 1916 (general Gallipoli evacuation). Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 15 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 21 March 1916. Wounded in action, 5 November 1916 (gun shot wound, left hand); admitted to 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen, 6 November 1916; transferred to England, 9 November 1916, and admitted to 1st Southern General Hospital; transferred to 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, 24 November 1916; discharged to No. 2 Command Depot, 28 November 1916. Found guilty of breaking away from fatigue party without permission from 11 a.m. and remaining absent till 4 p.m., 11 January 1917: awarded 3 days' confined to barracks and forfeiture of 1 day's pay. Admitted to 1st Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford, 24 February 1917; discharged, 7 April 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 43 days. Proceeded overseas to France, 22 May 1917; rejoined Bn, 12 June 1917. Admitted to 7th Australian Field Ambulance, 9 July 1917 (tonsillitis); rejoined unit, 15 July 1917. Proceeded to Summer Rest Camp, 13 August 1917; rejoined unit, 27 August 1917. Reported missing in action, 5 October 1917; Court of Enquiry (date not recorded on file) confirmed fate as 'killed in action', Belgium, 5 October 1917. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |