Gjedsted, Napoleon Henry Chatfield

Birth Name Gjedsted, Napoleon Henry Chatfield
Gender male
Age at Death 38 years, 4 months, 5 days

Narrative

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)

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Gjedsted, Edward185117 August 1911
Mother Chatfield, Eleanor Lucretia Jane2 September 185525 August 1916
    Brother     Gjedsted, Charles Edward 2 July 1877 24 May 1952
         Gjedsted, Napoleon Henry Chatfield 1879 6 May 1917
    Sister     Gjedsted, Eleanor Dagmar 1881 1955
    Brother     Gjedsted, Max Emil 1884 1949
    Sister     Gjedsted, Gladys Adeline 19 November 1886
    Brother     Gjedsted, John Douglas 1891 1968
    Brother     Gjedsted, Lawrence Valdemar 1891 25 February 1903
    Brother     Gjedsted, Roy Ernest 14 September 1888 1957
    Sister     Gjedsted, Kathlen 1893

Families

Family of Gjedsted, Napoleon Henry Chatfield and Delany, Mildred Augusta

Married Wife Delany, Mildred Augusta ( * 1886 + 1961 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 1910 Woollahra, Sydney, NSW, Australia    
  Narrative

7045/1910 GJEDSTED, NAPOLEON H C DELANY, MILDRED C A WOOLLAHRA

  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Gjedsted, Mildred Mary19121993
Gjedsted, Henry Ernest Chatfield BEM22 May 1991
  Attributes
Type Value Notes Sources
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Attributes

Type Value Notes Sources
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