Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
Edgar Gordon Down
Edgar Gordon Down
Address: Eruito, Flinders Island, Tasmania.
Conflict: 1914-1918.
Embarkation Age: 30.
Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A6 Clan McCorquodale on 13 November 1915.
Embarkation Rank: Lieutenant.
Embarkation Roll number: 10/13/3.
Embarkation Unit name: 8th Light Horse Regiment, 11th Reinforcement.
Enlistment date: 11 November 1915.
Fate: Killed in Action 23 December 1916.
Marital status: Single.
Next of kin: Mother, Mrs Janet Down, c/o G S Down, Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Occupation: Farmer.
Place of death or wounding: Magdhaba, Sinai Peninsular, Egypt.
Rank at death: Lieutenant [Lt].
Religion: Church of England.
Unit from Nominal Roll: 8th Light Horse Regiment.
War Grave Register notes: Lieutenant Edgar Gordon DOWN, 8th Light Horse Regiment. Killed in action 23rd December 1916. Age 31. Son of Thomas John Boon Down and Janet Down, of Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia. Native of Shepparton, Victoria. A. 163.
Lest we forget
Sources Used:
National Archives Service File.
Embarkation Roll, AWM8, Class 10, Light Horse.
Nominal Roll, AWM133, Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War.
Roll of Honour, AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
CWGC files, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register.
Collected Records of Steve Becker.
Further Reading:
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour
The Battle of Magdhaba, Sinai, December 23, 1916, Roll of Honour, Australia and New Zealand
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: 8th LHR, Roll of Honour, Edgar Gordon Down
