CHRISTENSEN Jorgen. Private, 1480, 4th, Australian Infantry, died of sickness, 15th September 1915.
Some notes from his army record. He joined up on the 23rd November 1914 aged 27 years and 7 months, at Liverpool, New South Wales, occupation, labourer. He was posted to the Australian Imperial Force as Private 1332 at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne. He was transferred to the 2nd Reinforcements, 4th Battalion, C Company as Private 1480. He was born in Denmark and his next of kin was his sister, Miss Olga Jacobsen of Skibusve 16, Odense, Denmark. On the 30th March 1915 2nd Reinforcements, 4th Bn. He was later transferred on the 30th March 1915 to 2/4 Australia Imperial Force, 4th Battalion C Coy, at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne as Private 1480. 5th April 1915 he embarked for England and then to join the Gallipoli Campaign, Alexandria. Casualty, Active Service, 4th Bn, A.I.F sheet gets a little confusing. Extracts from the sheet as recorded. 2nd August 1916, Sick, sent to Anzac Clearing Station. 3rd August 1915 re-joined battalion from being sick. 4th August 1915 awarded 2 days confined to barracks for failing to awaken the detachment in Stand to, at Gallipoli. Reported missing between the 6th and 9th August 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsular. 25th August 1915 sick, to 3rd Field Ambulance at Anzac, same day from 3rd Field Ambulance suffering from Febrile transferred and admitted to Casualty Clearing Station, Anzac, 26th August 1915 from St Andrews Hospital Malta he was transferred to England on Hospital Ship, Carisbrook Castle. See previous report 3/9/15. No report found (He was admitted to St Andrews on the 20th June 1915,) 27th August 1915 from Hospital Ship Ascania admitted to a hospital in Mudros. 31st August 1915 admitted to a hospital into St Ignatius Hospital Malta, serious ill with enteric, from Hospital Ship, Ascania. 3rd September 1915 reported as dangerously ill. 15th September 1915 died of Enteritis and laid to rest the same day by Chaplin, M.A. Farren in Pieta New Military Cemetery Plot B Row XII Grave 4
