William Peters Gavel 1811 Corporal 17th Battalion, Australian Infantry N/A Mathoura, New South Wales, Australia March 10, 1915 Liverpool, New South Wales Leeton, Australia 22 5 feet, 5 inches Fair Blue Dark Single Engine Driver William Stillman Gavel (Father) Leeton, Australia November 22, 1918 November 17, 1966 Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia William Peters Gavel was the son of William Stillman Gavel (1855-1934) and Margaret (Fisher) Gavel (1860- 1946). He was the husband of Jane Beatrice (Doyle) Gavel (d. 1980). His brothers, Andrew Alan Gavel (1880- 1959), 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. William Peters Gavel embarked Australia on July 28, 1915 for Alexandria in Egypt. He served in the Gallipoli Campaign taken on strength there on September 17, 1915. He was hospitalized at Mudros, Greece, with mumps between December 29, 1915 and returned to duty on January 19, 1916. He embarked Alexandria on March 17, 1916 , and disembarked at Marseilles, France on March 23, 1916 to join the British Expeditionary Force in France. He was promoted to Corporal on March 22, 1917. On April 15, 1917 he was wounded in action and admitted to hospital at Rouen, France, with severe gun shot wounds to his left arm. On April 17th he was discharged to England and hospitalized there until February 11, 1918. Corporal Gavel was returned to Australia for discharge, the result of his injury, on April 5, 1918. He remained on strength until his discharge on November 20, 1918.

William Peters Gavel

Sources: findagrave Australian Military Records