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URGENT ….. WE NEED TO LOCATE
JOHN GORDON'S RELATIVES
Please read below and see if you can help..
Photos show members of the 29th battalion in France date and locations unknown possibly Lamotte

Clan Gordon - House of Gordon Australia
The Purpose of our site is to provide a central point for everyone to get information on the Gordon Clan whether it be a casual or specific interest or clan or family orientation. It also acts as a meeting place for those who are not able to get together at gatherings or get togethers. We hope to bring together in this way all Gordon Clansmen in Australia with a link up with our other international branches.

We believe in the preservation of our Celtic, Scottish/Irish and Clan heritage. The Gordons were always a "Spirited" Clan and we hope to hand onto the future that spirit and heritage and to do this we feel we need to educate both adults and specifically our children in a modern and fun way that will create an interest later in life so as to preserve the heritage for generations to come.

On the 19-20 July 1916 the battle of Fromelles took place in France in which a large number of Australian and New Zealand Soldiers were killed. About 1900 of them were buried in a mass grave and discovered in 2008. The Fromelles Project was instigated to track down male relatives to obtain DNA in order to identify the remains. Since that time they have had a great deal of success in locating people and finally identifying their family. Unfortunately John Gordon is one of the soldiers who lost his life in this battle but has not yet been identified due to a lack of information.

We Know……
John GORDON was born in Port Adelaide South Australia in 1900 ? to William GORDON and Ellen Eliza LEWIS who were married just two years earlier in 1898. William was an engineer from Aberdeen Scotland who emigrated and settled here just a few years earlier. John had an older brother, William Lewis GORDON b. 1899 and a younger brother James Byron GORDON b. 1903, but he died in 1905 and a sister Ethel May GORDON b. 1906 d.1973.

John Gordon was obviously adventuresome and joined up during the First world war but as he was only 15 he lied about his age and used his brother's name of "James" to enlist. He became Private James Gordon No 1130 of the 29th Battalion AIF. Unfortunately the very first engagement of this Unit was at Fromelles which was a disaster and John was one of the casualties listed as missing. Later Red Cross information discovered that his dog tags had been collected by the Germans and papers were located showing him as killed at Fromelles and buried in a mass grave.

The FROMELLES PROJECT has contacted House of Gordon to seek help looking for a family tree or information of any living relatives….so if any members or persons viewing our website are researching or are members of this family we want to hear from you please. We need a MALE relative to provide a DNA identification so John can finally be identified and laid to rest. The recovered remains were reinterred in a Cemetery in Fromelles I believe. Unfortunately time is ticking and running out and we need help very soon.

If you have any information that might help in any way please email me at ken@houseofgordon.net or Tim Lycett ( tlycett@bigblue.net.au) Fromelles Project Manager.

Ken Gordon
Chief Commissioner House of Gordon Australia