7th Battalion
Killed In Action
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John Frederick Gandy (SN 3739) was born in Hawthorn but enlisted from Ballarat North on July 27th1915 at which time he was a 22 year old, married, train examiner. He was posted to the 7th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Melbourne aboard the Ceramic in late November. Once in Egypt he was transferred to the 59th Infantry Battalion. Just three weeks after reaching France he was seriously wounded at Fromelles and died of his wounds on July 22nd 1916. He was 23 years of age and is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as John F. Gaudy.
