Name
Ivan Noble Gair
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
31st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TINCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
V. F. 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
LOVED AND ONLY SON OF J.R. & M. GAIR OF ROCKHAMPTON, QUEENSLAND
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Ivan Noble Gair was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of John and Charlotte Gair.
He was a dentist and gave his next of kin as John Reid Gair (his father), Supreme Court, Rockhampton, Queensland.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 2 June 1915 in Brisbane as CSM in 31st Battalion, 'A' Company.
His unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 9 November 1915. He was in action in Egypt and the Western Front and was commissioned as a Lieutenant. He died of wounds on 30 September 1918.
Additional Information
His father, Mr J R Gair, Supreme Court, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, ordered his headstone inscription: "LOVED AND ONLY SON OF J.R. & M. GAIR OF ROCKHAMPTON, QUEENSLAND".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
