Name
John Scott Gamble
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
792
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
31st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 23
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
John Scott Gamble was born in 1890 in Carlton, Victoria, the son of William and Catherine GAMBLE.
He was educated at State School No. 1494, Victoria. He was employed as a Currier and was the husband of Mrs M. GAMBLE, 'Swastika', Crawley Street, Preston.
Wartime Service
He had previously served in the 5th Infantry Regiment, Citizen Military Forces, for 2.7 years and in the South Melbourne RF for 4 years. He enlisted on 26 June 1915 in Melbourne, Victoria as a Sergeant in 31st Battalion, D Company. His unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He disembarked in Suez on 7 December 1915 and served in Egypt and on the Western Front.
He was admitted to 8th Field Ambulance, Serapeum, 17 January 1916 with influenza but recovered and was discharged to duty, 19 January 1916. He embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force on 16 June 1916 and disembarked Marseilles on 23 June 1916. On 29 July 1916 he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, 29 July 1916.
Later the same year he was wounded in action by gas and admitted to the 2nd Casualty Clearing Station on 7 October 1916, transferred to Ambulance train no 25, admitted to 14th General Hospital, then sent to England where he was admitted to 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth on 15 October and then to 5th Auxiliary Hospital, Digswell House on 23 October 1916. Whilst there he was promoted to Lieutenant on 26 November 1916. The following year he was discharged from Digswell House on 5 February 1917; and eventually proceeded overseas to France to re-join his unit on 20 May 1917. He was sent to 2nd Army Rest Camp on 27 August 1917 and re-joined unit, 7 September 1917.
He was killed in action, on 27 September 1917 being first wounded by a shell in the groin and later killed by a bullet during the operations at Polygon Wood. He was said to buried at Polygon Wood, Carlisle Farm-Jerk House, however his body was not recovered for burial and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
