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GARTRELL, Albert Reginald Stanley

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Major
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop
Born:	Aberdeen, South Australia., 10 November 1881
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Printer.
Died:	Drowned, Manly, New South Wales, Australia , 26 March 1916, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial

World War 1 Service

7 Aug 1915:	Wounded The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, Shot near heart, at the Battle of the Nek, Gallipoli, 7/8/15, contracted Typhoid, taken to Heliopolis Hospital Cairo 13/8/15. On 5/10/15 embarked at Suez on "KANAWNA" for 3 months recuperation leave in Australia. Disembarked Melbourne 22/11/15. After some time recuperating at home in Adelaide, became chief signalling instructor at Broadmeadows military camp, Melbourne. Then promoted to Major in charge of the Wireless Division, sent to Sydney on recruiting duties, prior to going to the Western Front in France. But while having a last surf at Manly Beach (was to return by train to Melbourne that night) on 26/3/16, he heroically helped rescue two girls whose canoe overturned in the surf, but he was still weak from his injury, and died on the beach. Communications were very poor in those days, and my father, his son, remembers his mother turning white with shock at breakfast the next morning, when she first heard of her husband's death on reading an account of it in "The Adelaide Advertiser." His body was returned to Adelaide by train, and he was given a full military funeral, complete with horse-drawn flag-draped casket, gun carriage, mounted officers, and scores of marching troops. He left a widow, and two young sons.
26 Mar 1916:	Involvement Major, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: Wireless Squadron awm_rank: Major awm_died_date: 1916-03-26
Date unknown:	Involvement Captain, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: '' embarkation_ship: '' embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
Date unknown:	Embarked Captain, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Signal Troop

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