James Maxwell Gavel 4783 Corporal 53rd Battalion, Australian Infantry February 19, 1893 Condoblin, Australia September 13, 1915 Warwick Farm, New South Wales 4th Light Horse Regiment (2 years) 20 5 feet, 9 inches Dark Grey Dark Single Bank Clerk Presbyterian James Thompson Gavel (Father) Condoblin, Australia May 25, 1919 April 9, 1963 Newcastle Memorial Park Beresfield, Newcastle City, New South Wales, Australia James Maxwell Gavel was the son of James Thomson Gavel (1864-1939) and Ann Elizabeth Thomson (1870-1950) of Condobolin, West Wyalong District, New South Wales, Australia. He married Rosetta Stewart (1896-1988) in Sydney, Australia, in 1927. James Maxwell Gavel was the grandson of George Miller Gavel (1831-1916) born in Gavelton, Yarmouth Co., NS. James was taken on strength at Tel el Kebir, Egypt, an Australian training camp between Cairo and the Suez Canal. He embarked Alexandria on June 19, 1915 and disembarked at Marseilles on June 28, 1915 for service in France with the 53rd Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was appointed to the rank of Corporal on April 10, 1917. On April 14, 1918 James was wounded in action and admitted to No. 39 General Hospital at St. Omer with severe gas poisoning and transferred to Lewisham Military Hospital in England on April 23, 1918. Recovering, he remained in England and served with the 2nd, 3rd and 14th Machine Brigades. He returned to Australia on April 9, 1919, and was discharged from service on May 25, 1919.

James Maxwell Gavel

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