Gordon Ewing FORSTER
Gordon and Stanley both serving with First Australian Contingent in Egypt with the Army service Corps in 1915 (Con's news clipping)
• Military Service: Enlisted as driver in Divisional Train Company 1, 20 Aug 1914, Melbourne, Vic. 6
Gordon married Marjorie Arundel Mary BIRNIE, daughter of James S. BIRNIE and Margaret A., in 1927 in Waverley, NSW.1 (Marjorie Arundel Mary BIRNIE was born in 1904 in Dubbo, NSW.) |
1 Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1949, about Marjorie A M Birnie. Repository: Ancestry.com.
2 Peg's birthday book.
3 Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922, about Gordon Ewing Forster.
4 Australia death Index 1787-1985, about Gordon Ewing Forster.
5 Death and funeral notices from unspecified newspapers, The Argus, 7 Apr 1952. "FORSTER.-On April 4, at Heidelberg Military Hospital. Gor- don Ewing, husband of Marjorie, father of Pat and Peggy (Mrs. M Walters), father-in-law of Edith and Max, grandpa of Andrew. -At rest''.
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AIF Database, ADFA, Gordon Forster. Regimental number 374
Date of birth --/01/1887
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Commercial traveller
Address Auburn Road, Auburn, Victoria
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 27
Next of kin W.M. Forster, 'Rothberry', Auburn Road, Auburn
Enlistment date 20 August 1914
Rank on enlistment Driver
Unit name Divisional Train Company 1
AWM Embarkation Roll number 25/14/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A24 Benalla on 19 October 1914
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A19 Afric on 18 October 1914
Regimental number from Nominal Roll Commissioned
Rank from Nominal Roll Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll 1st Division Train
Promotions
2nd Lieutenant
Unit: 1st Div Train.
Promotion date: 7 March 1916.
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