Jasper Jens IVERSON

Regimental number2715
Place of birthKyogle, New South Wales
SchoolPublic School
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationFarmer
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation26.9
Height5' 9"
Weight161 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs Mary Iverson, Tooloon, Kyogle, New South Wales
Previous military serviceMember for 2 years, Rifle Club
Enlistment date12 August 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name25th Battalion, 6th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/42/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee on 21 October 1915
Regimental number from Nominal Roll2715A
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll9th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 4 October 1917
Place of death or woundingBelgium
Age at death28.11
Age at death from cemetery records28
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
56
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Jens and Mary IVERSON, Tooloom, New South Wales
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Miscellaneous detailsMother's surname incorrectly entered on Embarkation Roll as EVERSON.
SourcesNAA: B2455, IVERSON Jasper Jens
Red Cross File No 141070E