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Birth NSW 2775/1879 GJEDSTED, NAPOLEON HENRY C EDWARD & ELEANOR L J SYDNEY
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Burial Plot: IV. B. 1.
Find A Grave Memorial# 15278986
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First World War Embarkation Roll - Henry Chatfield Gjedsted
Service number: 2049
Rank: Private
Roll title: 1 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 8 Reinforcements (December 1914 - August 1915)
Conflict: First World War, 1914-1918
Enlisted: 11 Jan 1915
Date of embarkation: 25 June 1915
Place of embarkation: Sydney
Ship embarked on: HMAT Ceramic
Ship number: A40

Rank: Private (Records keep saying Corporal after he died even though he was a Private. His daughter referred to him as a Sergeant in two letters in the 60’s).

Served at Gallipoli where he was wounded in the buttock and hip by a bomb. Casevac’d to Australia and eventually re-joined the Battalion and embarked to England and then France where he died from wounds received.
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His Service Number Private/2049. He served in the 1st Battalion, Australian Inf, AIF. He enlisted at Liverpool in Sydney, Australia aged 34 years. He embarked from Sydney for Plymouth per the H.M.A.T "Euripides," on the 9th of September 1916. He proceeded to Etaples in France per the "Larkhill," on the 25th of April 1917. He received shrapnel wounds to the head and a fractured humerus in battle on the Western Front on the 5th of May 1917. He died of his wounds on the 6th May 1917. Henry is the loving husband of Mildred Gjedsted of 8 Grafton street in Woollahra in Sydney. (Bio by kc.byrne)