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Gordon Cyril HOLT

Regimental number300
Place of birthWilcannia New South Wales
SchoolConvent School (Catholic), Wilcannia, New South Wales
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationLabourer
AddressWrightville, Cobar, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinMother, Mrs C Hamilton, Wrightvile, Cobar, New South Wales
Enlistment date27 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name2nd Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/19/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A23 Suffolk on 18 October 1914
Regimental number from Nominal RollCommissioned
Rank from Nominal Roll2nd Lieutenant
Unit from Nominal Roll2nd Battalion
FateDied of wounds 9 October 1917
Place of death or woundingYpres, Belgium
Age at death23
Place of burialLijssenthoek Military Cemetery (Plot XXI, Row D, Grave No.9), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
29
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Charles and Ada HOLT, 29 Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, Newcastle, New South Wales. Native of Wilcannia, New South Wales

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