Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

The Gallipoli Campaign was fought on the Gallipoli peninsula 25th April 1915 to 9th January 1916. in a failed attempt to defeat Turkey by seizing the Dardanelles and capturing Istanbul. Ill-conceived and planned, the initial effort by the Royal Navy failed to force passage through the Dardanelles by sea power alone. It was then realised that a land force was needed to support the project by suppressing the Turkish mobile artillery batteries. By the time all was ready the Turks were well aware and well prepared. Despite amazing heroics on the day of the landings only minor beachheads were achieved and over the succeeding 8 months little progress was made. Eventually the beachheads were evacuated in a series of successful ruses.

Despite Gallipoli rightly becoming a national source of pride to Australians and New Zealanders, far more British casualties were sustained, and these days the substantial French contribution is almost forgotten.

Detail :

HUBERT GREGORY, PRIVATE, 1ST BATTALION AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY Hubert Gregory was born in Liverpool and became a Freemason in Anfield Lodge before departing to Australia to become a Bushman in the outback. He enlisted in New South Wales on 10 Nov 1914 and was 29 yrs 8 months on enlistment. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is incorrect in showing him as 28 when he was killed. His enlistment papers in Australia show him as a single man with his mother as next of kin, but he was married with 2 children (born 1909 & 1911). The Australian archives hold a letter from his sister written on the letterhead of James McGuffie & Co, Liverpool dated 14th July 1915 which reads as follows: "I should be very greatly obliged if you could tell me of some way of getting to know about my brother, he went to Australia some two years ago, and we have not heard from him for some time. Last Friday Mother got a letter from the War Office - 'We deeply regret to inform you that your son Pvt H Gregory, of the 1st Battalion Australian Contingent who was wounded 4th May was killed on 7th June. We attach message of sympathy from their Majesties the King and Queen. This of course has been a great shock to my Mother and if we could only get to know somebody in the same regiment who knew him and could write to us it would relieve her a lot" We cannot say with certainty what prompted his departure to the Australian outback but clearly the possibility exists that he had 'done a runner' and disappeared until the notification from the War Office arrived.

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Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley