David Alexander GAFF

GAFF, David Alexander

Service Number: 2017
Enlisted: 6 August 1912
Last Rank: Able Seaman
Last Unit: Lines of Communication Units
Born: Templestowe, Victoria, Australia, 14 July 1895
Home Town: Queenscliff, Victoria
Schooling: Queenscliff State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Sailor, RAN
Died: Typhoid Fever, St Germain au Mont D'Or, Rhone-Alpes, France, 4 May 1918, aged 22 years
Cemetery: St. Germain-au-Mont-D'or Communal Cemetery Extension
B. 7., St Germain au Mont D'Or Communal Cemetery Extension, St Germain au Mont D'Or, Rhone-Alpes, France, Borre British Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crib Point RAN WW1 Roll of Honour (Panel 2)
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Non Warlike Service

6 Aug 1912: Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, 2017, HMAS Cerberus (Shore)

World War 2 Service

6 Aug 1912: Enlisted 2017

Non Warlike Service

21 May 1913: Transferred Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, HMAS Encounter (I)

World War 1 Service

11 Sep 1914: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Ordinary Seaman, 2017, HMAS Encounter (I), AN&MEF, New Guinea
16 Nov 1915: Promoted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, HMAS Encounter (I)
1 Jan 1918: Transferred Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, HMAS Cerberus (Shore)
2 Feb 1918: Transferred Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, Lines of Communication Units, London Depot
4 May 1918: Involvement Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 2017
Date unknown: Involvement Able Seaman, 2017, HMAS Encounter (I)

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Biography contributed by Robert Wight

David Gaff is also memorialised at:

Queenscliff Memorial Garden;

St Georges Church of England, Queenscliff; and 

Queenscliff RSL Honour Roll