Participant Info

Surname

Polden

First Name

Gilbert

Initial

J

Service Number

1757

Rank

corporal

Unit Served

27th Battalion

Service Record

Egypt, Gallipoli, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

May 11

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

June 23

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, SA section J, notes page 10, image page 9

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

The late James Polden

Parental Address

Mount Pleasant

Parental City

Parental State

SA

Notes

born Mount Pleasant, December 8, 1886, educated Mount Pleasant, blacksmith, enlisted May 12, 1915, embarked June 23, 1915. War service: Egypt, Gallipoli (wounded, September 23, 1915), invalided to Malta, thence to England, recovered, returned to duty, Fra