Rank: 
Trooper
Service number: 
3358
Unit: 
3rd Light Horse Regiment
Location: 
74 Casualty Clearing Station, Palestine
Ashdod, Israel
Deir el Belah War Cemetery, Palestine
Date of Death: 
12 November 1917
Enquirer: 
Phoebe Gilbert
Eyewitness Reports: 
Philip Barbuto
John Donovan
Henry Schmidt
Packet number: 
5091
Date range: 
1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/5091
Joseph George Lodwick Gilbert | Source: https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=39&gss=sfs28_ms_f-39&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=joseph%20george%20lodwick&gsfn_x=0&gsln=gilbert&gsln_x=0&cpxt=1&cp=2&MSAV=1&uidh=000 Joseph George Lodwick Gilbert | Source: https://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=39&gss=sfs28_ms_f-39&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=joseph%20george%20lodwick&gsfn_x=0&gsln=gilbert&gsln_x=0&cpxt=1&cp=2&MSAV=1&uidh=000 Phoebe Gilbert, mother of soldier | Source: personal collection
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Submitted by andrewp on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 09:46

Joseph was the eldest of 13 children, Joseph was her first born son, and attended the Observation School and was employed as a Boundary Rider on Gum Creek Station, near Burra in South Australia's mid-North before he enlisted ....which he did as soon as he was of acceptable age.

Glenda Couch-Keen

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