L/Cpl
James Tinnock Bulkeley Gavin

Informatie over geboorte

Geboortejaar:
1894
Geboorteplaats:
Longreach, Queensland, Australië

Algemene Informatie

Beroep:
Effectenmakelaar

Informatie legerdienst

Land:
Australië
Strijdmacht:
Australian Imperial Force
Rang:
Lance Corporal
Service nummer:
6191
Dienstneming datum:
26/04/1916
Dienstneming plaats:
Brisbane, Queensland, Australië
Eenheden:
 —  Australian Infantry, 26th Bn. (Queensland and Tasmania)  (Laatst gekende eenheid)

Informatie over overlijden

Datum van overlijden:
04/10/1917
Plaats van overlijden:
Mühle, België
Doodsoorzaak:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Leeftijd:
23

Begraafplaats

Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
Plot: VII
Rij: B
Graf: 3

Onderscheidingen en medailles 2

British War Medal
Medaille
Victory Medal
Medaille

Points of interest 2

#1 Geboorteplaats
#2 Dienstneming plaats

Mijn verhaal

Lance Corporal James Tinnock Bulkeley enlisted, 22,5 years old, in the Australian Army on the 26th April 1916 in Brisbane, Queensland Australia. He worked as stock salesman in the company of his father: „Gavin and Sons, Stock and Property Salesmen“.
Private Gavin Gordon Bulkeley enlisted, 24 years old, in the Australian Army on the 30th September 1916 in Longreach, Queensland Australia. Gavin worked in the same company as an overseer.
Both brothers were assigned to the 26th Battalion A.I.F., part of the 7th Brigade, 2nd Australian Division and embarked on the 27th of October 1917 from Brisbane, Australia. On the 4th of October 1917, the 2nd Australian Division passed through Zonnebeke. It prepared itself for the Battle of Broodseinde, a phase in the Passchendaele offensive.
The 2nd Australian Division attacked at 5.25 a.m., with two brigades. They met the same German counter-attacks, as the 1st Australian Division and likewise fought them off. The 6th Australian Brigade captured Zonnebeke village, including the hamlet of Broodseinde.
The 7th Australian Brigade cleared Zonnebeke village of snipers. Little or no opposition was met, until they reached the Broodseinde ridge. Here they encountered severe fire from German machine guns positioned in Daisy Wood, some 300 yards away. It was decided to consolidate a line in an old British trench from 1914-1915, 200 yards short of their objective.
Lance Corporal James Tinnock Bulkely was killed by a shell near the jump off line, his brother Gavin Gordon was killed near Broodseinde close to the consolidated position, in front of Daisy Wood. Today their graves are in the same row in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery in Belgium, but only because their father so wished it, and had Gavin Gordon disinterred from the Tyne Cot Cemetery and shifted to the cemetery in which his brother was buried.

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"Passchendaele, The Day-by-Day Account",McCarthy C., Arms&ArmourPress, London, 1995, page 98-99"
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AIF Project
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=108506
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AWM
https://www.awm.gov.au/advanced-search/people?people_preferred_name=Gavin&people_service_number=6191&people_unit=
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CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/98925/gavin,-james-t.-bulkeley/
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Image
https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/images?keyword=Gavin%206191
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Service Record
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4028554
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The long long trail
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/
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War Diary
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1343387
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War Diary 7th Bgde
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1346531
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