Lance Corporal Alexander Gordon. Service no. 6975.
Alexander was the fifth child of James and Ellen (nee Grieve) Gordon and attended Mt Samson School. On 21 Oct 1916, he married Ivy Sewell, the local school teacher, and they had one child, Winifred May Gordon.
In 1913, Alexander, a local of the Samford Valley community, became a key witness in the identification and arrest of Ernest Austin, who Alexander spotted leaving a secluded woods on horseback. Unbeknownst to Alexander at the time Ernest had moments before committed a terrible crime for which he would be sentenced to death and hanged, being the last prisoner in Queensland to be executed.
Enlisting on 30 Sep 1916, Alexander was posted to the 15th Battalion and embarked on HMAT Beltana for overseas service on 25 Nov 1916.
Alexander was congratulated by Major General E.G. Sinclair for initiative and gallantry in capturing an enemy machine gun on 5/6 May 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux. He was fatally wounded by shell fire while taking refuge in a dugout at Hamel Woods and died shortly after on 6 Jul 1918.
According to Alexander's comrades he was a "good sport and well liked." At one point it was suggested that Alexander had been recommended for the Victoria Cross, however this is uncertain.
Alexander was the fifth child of James and Ellen (nee Grieve) Gordon and attended Mt Samson School. On 21 Oct 1916, he married Ivy Sewell, the local school teacher, and they had one child, Winifred May Gordon.
In 1913, Alexander, a local of the Samford Valley community, became a key witness in the identification and arrest of Ernest Austin, who Alexander spotted leaving a secluded woods on horseback. Unbeknownst to Alexander at the time Ernest had moments before committed a terrible crime for which he would be sentenced to death and hanged, being the last prisoner in Queensland to be executed.
Enlisting on 30 Sep 1916, Alexander was posted to the 15th Battalion and embarked on HMAT Beltana for overseas service on 25 Nov 1916.
Alexander was congratulated by Major General E.G. Sinclair for initiative and gallantry in capturing an enemy machine gun on 5/6 May 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux. He was fatally wounded by shell fire while taking refuge in a dugout at Hamel Woods and died shortly after on 6 Jul 1918.
According to Alexander's comrades he was a "good sport and well liked." At one point it was suggested that Alexander had been recommended for the Victoria Cross, however this is uncertain.
Lance Corporal Alexander Gordon. Service no. 6975.
Alexander was the fifth child of James and Ellen (nee Grieve) Gordon and attended Mt Samson School. On 21 Oct 1916, he married Ivy Sewell, the local school teacher, and they had one child, Winifred May Gordon.
In 1913, Alexander, a local of the Samford Valley community, became a key witness in the identification and arrest of Ernest Austin, who Alexander spotted leaving a secluded woods on horseback. Unbeknownst to Alexander at the time Ernest had moments before committed a terrible crime for which he would be sentenced to death and hanged, being the last prisoner in Queensland to be executed.
Enlisting on 30 Sep 1916, Alexander was posted to the 15th Battalion and embarked on HMAT Beltana for overseas service on 25 Nov 1916.
Alexander was congratulated by Major General E.G. Sinclair for initiative and gallantry in capturing an enemy machine gun on 5/6 May 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux. He was fatally wounded by shell fire while taking refuge in a dugout at Hamel Woods and died shortly after on 6 Jul 1918.
According to Alexander's comrades he was a "good sport and well liked." At one point it was suggested that Alexander had been recommended for the Victoria Cross, however this is uncertain.
Alexander was the fifth child of James and Ellen (nee Grieve) Gordon and attended Mt Samson School. On 21 Oct 1916, he married Ivy Sewell, the local school teacher, and they had one child, Winifred May Gordon.
In 1913, Alexander, a local of the Samford Valley community, became a key witness in the identification and arrest of Ernest Austin, who Alexander spotted leaving a secluded woods on horseback. Unbeknownst to Alexander at the time Ernest had moments before committed a terrible crime for which he would be sentenced to death and hanged, being the last prisoner in Queensland to be executed.
Enlisting on 30 Sep 1916, Alexander was posted to the 15th Battalion and embarked on HMAT Beltana for overseas service on 25 Nov 1916.
Alexander was congratulated by Major General E.G. Sinclair for initiative and gallantry in capturing an enemy machine gun on 5/6 May 1918 at Villers-Bretonneux. He was fatally wounded by shell fire while taking refuge in a dugout at Hamel Woods and died shortly after on 6 Jul 1918.
According to Alexander's comrades he was a "good sport and well liked." At one point it was suggested that Alexander had been recommended for the Victoria Cross, however this is uncertain.
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