Regimental number | 545 |
Place of birth | Sale, Victoria |
Other Names | Gilbert Glenloth |
School | State School, victoria |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Engine cleaner Victorian Railways |
Address | 108 Princess Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 22 |
Height | 5' 5.475" |
Weight | 142 lbs |
Next of kin | Father, F Wilson, 108 Princess Street, Port Melbourne, Victoria |
Previous military service | Nil |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Place of enlistment | Melbourne, Victoria |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 21st Battalion, B Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/38/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Lance Corporal |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 2nd Pioneer Battalion |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Flers, France |
Age at death from cemetery records | 24 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France Villers-Bretonneux is a village about 15 km east of Amiens. The Memorial stands on the high ground ('Hill 104') behind the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Fouilloy, which is about 2 km north of Villers-Bretonneux on the east side of the road to Fouilloy. The Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux is approached through the Military Cemetery, at the end of which is an open grass lawn which leads into a three-sided court. The two pavilions on the left and right are linked by the north and south walls to the back (east) wall, from which rises the focal point of the Memorial, a 105 foot tall tower, of fine ashlar. A staircase leads to an observation platform, 64 feet above the ground, from which further staircases lead to an observation room. This room contains a circular stone tablet with bronze pointers indicating the Somme villages whose names have become synonymous with battles of the Great War; other battle fields in France and Belgium in which Australians fought; and far beyond, Gallipoli and Canberra. On the three walls, which are faced with Portland stone, are the names of 10,885 Australians who were killed in France and who have no known grave. The 'blocking course' above them bears the names of the Australian Battle Honours. After the war an appeal in Australia raised £22,700, of which £12,500 came from Victorian school children, with the request that the majority of the funds be used to build a new school in Villers-Bretonneux. The boys' school opened in May 1927, and contains an inscription stating that the school was the gift of Victorian schoolchildren, twelve hundred of whose fathers are buried in the Villers-Bretonneux cemetery, with the names of many more recorded on the Memorial. Villers-Bretonneux is now twinned with Robinvale, Victoria, which has in its main square a memorial to the links between the two towns. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 173 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Frederick WILSON and the late Eleanor WILSON |
Family/military connections | Brother: Lt Frederick Gladstone WILSON, 13th Bn, killed in action, 26 April 1915. |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front Embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 29 August 1915. Admitted to 13th Casualty Clearing Hospital, Gallipoli, 18 October 1915 (diarrhoea); discharged to duty, 26 October 1915. Admitted to 3rd Australian General Hospital, Mudros, 24 December 1915 (enteritis); discharged, 4 January 1916 (haemorrhoids); marched into Tower Camp, 7 January 1916. Disembarked Alexandria from Mudros, 21 January 1916. Transferred to 2nd Pioneer Bn, 4 March 1916; taken on strength, Moascar, 13 March 1916. Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 19 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 26 March 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 1 July 1916; Acting Corporal, 23 August 1916. Killed in action, 14 November 1916. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Sources | NAA: B2455, WILSON Gilbert |