Private
Oliver
Gainger
Born in Ondit, Colony of Victoria
Ancestors 
Son of John Gainger
and Hannah (Bevan) Gainger
Brother of
Elizabeth Alice (Gainger) Hunt, John Edmund Gainger, Amelia (Gainger) Allen, Harold Gainger, Albert Gainger, Evelyn Hannah (Gainger) Fuller, Percy Gainger, Melvin Alvie Gainger, Gertrude May Gainger and Myrtle Rose (Gainger) Fyffe
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 26
in France
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Biography
Oliver Gainger was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)
Oliver was born in 1891 in the Colony of Victoria, the son of John Gainger and Hannah Bevan. [1]
He joined the AIF in WW1. Service number 2294, Rank Private, Unit 46th Australian Infantry Battalion, Service Australian Imperial Force, Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918, Conflict Eligibility Date, First World War, 1914-1921.
He was killed in action in 1917. Cemetery or Memorial Details Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. Source AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army. Location on the Roll of Honour: Oliver Gainger's name is located at panel 141 in the Commemorative Area at the Australian War Memorial. [2]
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Sources
- ↑ Victorian birth registration 1891,15811,M,Gainger,Oliver,John,Bevan Hannah,Ondit,
- ↑ https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1730247
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