37th Battalion
Killed In Action
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John Herbert Leopold Gilbert (SN 3067) was born in Haddon and educated at the Mt. Pleasant State School. He enlisted at Sebastopol on March 1st 1916. At that time he was 32 years old, married to Mary and a grocer. He was posted to the 37th Infantry Battalion and embarked from Melbourne aboard the Ballarat in February 1917.
He was fatally wounded during the fighting around Broodseinde on October 5th 1917. He is buried in the Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Belgium. He was 33 years of age.
