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VC1024    Alfred Edward Gaby

Name   Alfred Edward Gaby   No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1024   Awards   VC     

Regiment   Australian Imperial Force, 28th (Western Australia) Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant

Place Of Birth   Springfield, Tasmania, Australia

Place Of Death   East of Framerville, near Amiens, France

Buried/Location Ashes   Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, 10 miles south of Albert, Somme, France

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 5, Row E, Grave 14

Gazetted   30 October 1918

VC Presented   No presentation

Memorials

P  Headstone, Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, 10 miles south of Albert, Somme, France

Named on Roll of Honour, Panel 113, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Display, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Memorial Plaque, Western Australian War Memorial, Kings Park, Perth, WA, Australia

Named on Cenotaph, Hobart, TAS, Australia

Memorial Stone, Scotsdale Primary School, Scotsdale, TAS, Australia

Memorial Plaque, Katanning Town Hall, Austral Terrace, Katanning, WA, Australia

P  Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

P  Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia

P  Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia

By The Way…

He was twice rejected for military service, but after corrective surgery for a hernia he was accepted

VC Held By

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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BORN   25 January 1892

DIED   11 August 1918  AGE   26

VC Won   8 August 1918   AGE   26

Place VC Won   Villers-Bretonneux, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1918