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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Andrew Allan (Allen) Gavel
N/A
Private
Australian Home Service Corps
1883
Echuca, Victoria, Australia
August 21, 1916
Goulburn, New South Wales
Leeton, Australia
Militia (12 Months)
32
5 feet, 9 inches
Dark
Brown
Black
Married
Irrigation Engineer
Fanny Victoria Gavel (Wife) Leeton, Australia
November 7, 1916 (service no longer required)
September 13, 1959
Junee Cemetery, Junee, New South Wales
Andrew Allan Gavel was the son of William Stillman Gavel (1855-1934) and Margaret (Fisher) Gavel (1860-1946)
He was the husband of Fanny Victoria (Wittick) Gavel (1883-1953) and father of Walter Stillman Gavel (1907-
1907),Irene May Gavel [De Mamiel] (1910-1979), William Gavel (1918-1943), Florence Margaret Gavel [Heritage]
(1919-1976), Andrew Allen Gavel (1911-1920) , Gladys E. Gavel (d. 1924), Sidney Roy Gavel (1913-1976), and
Daphne Nita Gavel [Shoemark] (1921-2003).
His brothers, William Peters Gavel (d. 1966), Ralph Gavel (1898), and Sidney John Gavel (1894-1916), also
served during WWI. The four boys were the grandsons of Andrew Stillman Gavel, born in Gavelton, Yarmouth
Co., NS.
Two sons of Andrew Allan Gavel served during WWII. Sidney Roy Gavel served during WWII as a Private in an
Australian Army Transport Platoon between 1942 and 1946). William Gavel also served during WWII with the
2/19 Australian Infantry Battalion and died as a POW at No. 4 Camp in Thailand.
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