Name
Gordon Cyril Holt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
300
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXI. D. 9.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Gordon Cyril Holt was born in Wilcannia, New South Wales, the son of Charles and Ada Holt. He worked as a Labourer and gave his address as Wrightville, Cobar, New South Wales. This was also the address of his mother, Mrs C Hamilton as next of kin.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 27 August 1914 as a Private with the 2nd Battalion, 'C' Company. His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A23 Suffolk on 18 October 1914.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 2nd Battalion and died of wounds on 9 October 1917 at Ypres, Belgium.
Additional Information
N.B. Some records give his Battalion as 1st Australian Infantry (CWGC) and others as 2nd Battalion (AIF Project). Mrs Adam Hamilton, 29 Waratah Road, Broadmeadow, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, ordered his headstone inscription: "TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
