Gabriel Alphonse Ferrett

Service number: 4776

Rank: Private

Unit: 2nd Battalion then 54th Battalion

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Date of death: 16 August 1935

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Gabriel Ferrett was born at Manly in 1887, son of Leon Ferrett, who kept the Ladies’ Baths. He was a fisherman prior to enlisting.

He enlisted on 26 August 1915, aged 29. He served with the 54th Battalion at Fleurbaix, where he was wounded by shellfire and taken prisoner of war. He was later exchanged, and had his leg amputated.

He was discharged on 16 July 1917 and returned to Australia by Hospital Ship no 2.

Army records have his middle name as ‘Alphouse’.

He married Gladys M Taylor at Manly in 1920.

Manly Daily 15 September 1917 reported that Gabriel Ferret, recently repatriated, had lost a leg when on observation duty in a trench recaptured from the Germans. He operated a fishmonger’s business on Manly Wharf. He lived at ‘Lorraine’, Dudley Street.

He died on 16 August 1935, and was buried at Manly Cemetery Plot Y148.