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Unit |
10th Battalion,
H Company |
Rank |
Sergeant |
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Date of Enlistment |
22 August
1914 |
Service no. |
461 |
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Date of Death |
25 April 1915 |
Place of Death |
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Age |
22 |
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Cemetery |
Lone Pine Memorial |
Details |
Panel 32 |
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Epitaph |
- |
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Next of Kin |
(Mother)
GILPIN A |
Address |
103
McArthur St, Ballarat VIC |
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Parents |
the late
Alexander and Hannah Gilpin (nee Simpson) |
Address |
103
McArthur St, Ballarat VIC |
|
Date of Birth |
26 August
1892 |
Place of birth |
VIC St
Kilda |
|
General |
25 April 1915
“Horror piled on horror.
‘We settled down to a musketry
duel. The men began to get hit. A terrible cry was wrenched from the
bravest as the nickel demon ripped through flesh, bone and sinew…Alec
Gilpin had been fatally wounded in the stomach, all day he begged to
be shot.”
FALLON, Brian T, Gone but not
Forgotten. A Tribute to the War Dead of 'H' Company, 10th Battalion,
Australian Imperial Force, page 52 (source 69) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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- The
Australasian newspaper, 3 July 1915, page iii,
(source 31)
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Photo |
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The Argus newspaper, 28 June 1915, page 4 (source 42) |
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Photo |
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The Daily Telegraph newspaper, 23 July 1915, page 9
(source 70) |
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Photo |
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FALLON, Brian T, Gone but not Forgotten. A Tribute to the War
Dead of 'H' Company, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force,
page 51 (source 69) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Age
newspaper, 22 June 1915, page 10 (source 44) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus
newspaper, 3 July 1915, page 11 (source 42) |
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Newspaper article |
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The Argus
newspaper, 19 June 1915, page 6 (source 42) |
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Family details |
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Spirits of
Gallipoli |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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See Gallipoli Heroes – a tribute to the men from Western
Victoria who gave their lives for their country. MASSEY,
Graeme, page 48 (source 19) |
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Notes |
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MACKLIN, Robert, Jacka VC, page 52
(source 138) |
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Notes |
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FALLON, Brian T, Gone but not Forgotten. A Tribute to the War
Dead of 'H' Company, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force,
page 51 (source 69) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 59 (source 14) |
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