ATTENBOROUGH, Gerald
| Service Number: | 5540 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Woorak, Victoria, Australia, September 1891 |
| Home Town: | Henty, Greater Hume Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium Plot XIV, Row F, Grave 11 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5540, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 5540, 18th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 5540, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 20th September 1917, Private Gerald Attenborough, 18th Battalion (Reg No-5540), farm labourer from Henty, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, Belgium, age 26. Cause of death not stated.
Born at Woorak, Victoria about 1891 to Mark (farmer from Stockinbingal, New South Wales, enlisted 7.9.1915, 13th Battalion, Reg No-3981, RTA 9.10.1918 medically unfit, 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, report that father Mark welcomed home and presentation of medal at Stockinbingal, N.S.W., died 29.11.1950, Culcairn, N.S.W., buried?) of The Homestead, Walbundrie, N.S.W. (1923) and Jane Bell Attenborough nee Wallis (died?, buried?) of Walbundrie Soldiers' Settlement, New South Wales, Gerald enlisted on the 3rd April 1916 at Cootamundra, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A14 Euripides on the 9th September 1916.
Gerald is resting at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium. Plot XIV Row F Grave 11.
Place of Association - The Rock, New South Wales, Australia.
I have not located Mr. Attenborough’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
Older brother Herbert Somner or Somers (Harry or Bert, born about 1887, Woorak, Victoria, labourer from The Rock, New South Wales and 15 Brown Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., enlisted 7.9.1914, an Original Anzac, 10th Australian Field Artillery Brigade, Reg No-744, RTA 2nd December 1918, Special 1914 Leave, died 2nd January 1949, age-61) resting same location, unmarked grave, wooden cross erected 28.6.1915 and 3.1.2023.
I have also erected a Memorial cross for brother Gerald in remembrance of his service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 3. 179. 25.
A Plaque shall be placed at the gravesite for Bert courtesy of the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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