Oscar Norton Gambrill

Born 1893    Place St Petersburg, North-Western Russia     Ethnic origin English     Religion Church of England

Residence before arrival at Australia “I have resided long in Russia before the war” (Gambrill)

Arrived at Australia 1913?

Residence before enlistment Longreach, Qld

Occupation 1915 station hand, 1919 clerk

Service

service number 978   enlisted 19.01.1915   POE Longreach, Qld

unit 2nd Light Horse Regiment; 5th DAC; 5th Aust. Div HQ   rank Private, Gunner, Driver

place Gallipoli, 1915; Western Front, 1916-1918, England, 1918-1919

discharged 21.12.1919 in London

Naturalisation natural born British subject

Materials digitised service records (NAA)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

Oscar Norton Gambrill, from St Petersburg, applied for a discharge in England from the AIF in 1919 to take up a job in southern Russia for a British firm, arguing that, ‘As I resided long in Russia before the war I am well qualified to fill this post’.

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