Gordon Rankin Inglis

 November 1915, several Canadian and Australian wounded soldiers arrived at the YMCA. 

One of the soldiers was the Australian Private J. C. Inglis, who had been wounded at Gallipoli having been shot in the lung.  He was first sent to a base hospital in Malta, where he spent five months. 

During Christmas 1915, Private Inglis and other soldiers had a happy time. 

Following this Private Inglis was sent to Swansea Hospital, where he was to receive X-ray treatment, however before this treatment could carried out, he succumbed dying from his injuries, dying on the 23^rd of January 1916.

Gordon Rankin Inglis was born in 1891 in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia.  He was the only son of David Gordon Inglis and Lydahlia McLean.

David was born in Scotland, in 1862 while Lydahlia, was born in Australia in 1870.  The couple were to be married in 1887.

Before the war, Gordon was an accountant. His name was in the Australian Electoral Rolls, in 1914.

Australian Electoral Rolls
1914

August 1914, Inglis, enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria, and joined the 5^th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.  Rank lance corporal.

Gordon Rankin Inglis
Attestation Papers

Inglis's dying wish was that pipes should be played over his grave.  Inglis had himself been a champion piper of his hometown.

Gordon Rankin Inglis
Danygraig Cemetery
credit - findagrave

South Wales Daily Post

Herald of Wales

The funeral was on the 5^th of February, where Inglis was buried at Danygraig Cemetery.  The firing party were men belonging to the Shropshire Regiment. Detachment of the King’s Royal Rifles, the 78^th Glamorgan V.A.D., and several soldiers were conveyed by motor car, along with some wounded soldiers to the cemetery. The funeral service was conducted by Canon J. H. Watkins-Jones.   Piper Donald Frazer carried out Inglis’s wishes.  Gordon Rankin Inglis is also commemorated on the Australia War Memorial. 

South Wales Daily Post

In June 1916, months after the funeral, South Wales Daily Post, published an article, following the photograph of Inglis's grave in an earlier edition of the paper, a Mrs. Hill, of 4 Glanbrydan Avenue, whose son who went to Antipodes, and was the employment Messes Ben Evans and Co.  Mr. Hill showed the photo to a colleague who knew Inglis’s mother.

Mr. Hill received a letter from Mrs. Inglis, and he forwarded it to his mother at 4 Glanbrydan Avenue.