Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 27/04/1915
- Date of Discharge
- 08/08/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Chester, England
- Address (at enlistment)
- Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Next of Kin
- Mary Gorst (mother), Red Hill, Queensland
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 4332
- Final Rank
- Staff Sergeant
- Final Unit
- 3 Australian General Hospital
Awards and Honours
Meritorious Service Medal
Notes
Gorst was an Englishman who worked as a clerk at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1913 and 1914. He had fought in the Boer War with the Pretoria Northern Rifles and enlisted in Sydney on 27 April 1915, serving with the 3rd General Hospital in Abbeville, France. He was promoted to Staff Sergeant in June 1917 and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal "in recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders". He returned to Australia in June 1919 and moved to Queensland where he married Christina Riddel in 1933. Gorst died in Brisbane on 23 February 1968 and was interred at the Albany Creek Memorial Park.
Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 134 pounds, chest 33-35 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Methodist.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queensland Births, Deaths & Marriages - https://www.qld.gov.au/law/births-deaths-marriages-and-divorces/family-history-research/