8th Battalion
Killed In Action
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Ernest Charles Gilbert Youdan (SN 167) was born at Korumburra in Gippsland, educated at Ballarat’s Urquhart and Dana Street State Schools and enlisted as a motor driver in Melbourne on August 28th 1914. He was single and 20 years old. He joined the 8th Infantry battalion and embarked in October. He fought through the Gallipoli campaign before being deployed to France at the end of March 1916. On July 28th 1916 he was killed in action at Pozieres, has no known grave, and his name is on the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France.
