Identity disc : Private P T Gardiner, 13 Battalion, AIF

A circular aluminium identity disc with damaged upper suspender loop. The obverse of the disc is impressed with 'P.T.GARDINER. H 854. 13.AI C.E.'. The reverse side is blank but well worn and pitted. A light coloured earth is imbedded into the impressions and pitted areas of the disc. It also has two sections where the aluminium has worn through.

854 Private Percy Theodore Gardiner enlisted in the AIF at East Maitland, New South Wales, on 26 September 1914 and became an original member of H Company, 13 Infantry Battalion. He embarked at Melbourne in December 1914 aboard the transport A38 'Ulysses' for service overseas. He survived the Gallipoli campaign, including being wounded in May, but was later killed in action, aged nineteen, during the fighting at Mouquet Farm on 29 August 1916. Initially recorded as missing in action, a court of enquiry in October 1916 recorded him as 'killed in action'. He had in fact been killed on 29 August and buried near Thiepval that day. Gardiner's remains were exhumed after the war and moved to Courcelette British Cemetery, France.