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GORDON, LOUIS CLIVE

Studio portrait of 1183 Corporal Louis Clive Gordon, H Company, 15th Battalion, of Hobart, Tas. An engine driver prior to enlistment, he embarked from Melbourne, Vic, on HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 22 December 1914. Gordon was promoted to the rank of Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) on 1 January 1915 and was killed in action while serving on Gallipoli on 18 May 1915 age 26. His brother, 1415 Lance Corporal Charles Arthur Gordon, 1st Clearing Hospital, returned to Australia on 16 October 1918. In this portrait Cpl Gordon is wearing the pre-war uniform of a lieutenant in either the cadets or Militia forces

Lance Sergeant Louis Clive Gordon was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs A C Gordon of Zeehan.  He was 27 years of age and by profession, an engineer having been employed at the time he enlisted on the Zeehan staff of the Tasmanian Government Railways where he served his apprenticeship after severing his connection with the staff of this paper.  Clive as he was familiarly known was (says Zeehan Herald) of unassuming though firm and gentlemanly demeanour and an ernest worker.  His pleasant and sincere manner endeared him to all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  A mother’s son and man withal, it can be justly said he was one of the best.  He enlisted at Zeehan and left on October 1, 1914 for the concentration camp at Claremont.  He took a keen interest in military matters and prior to leaving for the front held a commission at Lieutenant in the A Company senior cadets at Zeehan.  He was a successful rifle shot having competed with the Zeehan Rifle Club.  He enlisted as a private but it was not long before his worth was recognized by his officers and before he left Tasmania he was promoted to a corporal and subsequently to the rank of Lance Sergeant.  His brother Charles is now with the Australian Medical Corps at the front.  Advice received by Mrs Gordon two days after the first landing at the Dardanelles was to the effect that her sons had met and a later telegram received on May the 21^st conveyed the glad tidings that both were then well.  His uncle the late Captain William Henry Gordon fell in the Egyptian campaign and another uncle Captain Frank Gordon was for some years stationed in India where he died.

The Weekly Courier 1^st July 1914

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