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Geoffery Servante Champion

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Given name
G S
Family name
Champion
Service number
583
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
2nd Lieutenant
Unit at embarkation
4 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Western Front
Fate
KIA
Veteran Notes/Bio

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 2/Lieut 583 ;POB:Launceston,Tasmania; POE: Liverpool ,NSW;NOK: Father: Arthur Hammerton Champion.( Rector St Philip's ,Bungendore).        

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Lance Corporal ;Unit: 30 Infantry Battalion (November 1915 ; Age: 20 11/12  ; Occupation: Clerk ;DOE: 1.07.1915 ; Embarked:9.11.1915.Sydney.HMAT Beltana.A72.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:2/Lieut ;Unit: 4 Battalion;DOE:1.07.1915;KIA 25.07.1916 .Buried Pozieres British Cemetery Ovillers-La Boisselle, France

5.See : OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007.ISBN:978-1-74027-487-6

6.Brothers: [637] Lt Christopher CHAMPION, 3 Bn, KIA France, 14 Augusrt 1917; Lt Arthur CHAMPION, 1st Bn, returned to Australia, 9 September 1916.

7. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas'Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW and on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 39.

8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On the 3rd of November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for Champion in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. On 21 December ARMY Brand Manager advised that the foregoing request had been considered and approved. Note: It is proposed that a single "Champion" street sign be used in due course to commemorate both C.H.D Champion and G.S. Champion.

9. Last updated December 2015.

 

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