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Source : The Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, J. Henniker Heaton, Sydney, 1879, p. 75.
“GAWLER, COLONEL GEORGE, 2nd Governor of S. Australia, born in the year 1796, was educated at the Military College, Great Marlow. He was the only child of Capt. Samuel Gawler, of the 73rd Regt., who led one of the storming parties at the siege of Seringapatam, and who died shortly afterwards at the early age of 25. Colonel Gawler joined the 52nd Light Infantry in November 1811, and served to the end of the Peninsular war in 1814. He led the forlorn hope at the storming of Badajoz, was struck by a grape shot in the right knee and fell from the parapet into the ditch below, where he lay all night, but was rescued by a private of his regiment, who had his own head shot off whilst he was in the act of serving his officer. Colonel Gawler commanded the right company of the 52nd Regt. at Waterloo when he was under 20 years of age, and received the war medal with seven clasps. He was appointed Governor of South Australia in 1838, and arrived in the Colony on October 12th of that year. He had great difficulties to contend with, but his administration, though it was at the time condemned by many, was wiser and more far-seeing than it was then thought to be. he was recalled in 1841. he died May, 1869, at Southsea, aged 73.”
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