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DAVIES, Alfred Edward
| Service Number: | 2524 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 June 1916, He enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 50th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Broken Hill, June 1897 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Broken Hill Public School |
| Occupation: | Laborer |
| Died: | Broken Hill, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Broken Hill Cemetery, New South Wales Buried in the section Anglican, ANGL I |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jun 1916: | Enlisted Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), 50th Infantry Battalion, He enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia. | |
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| 21 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 2524, 50th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 2524, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Adelaide | |
| 17 Oct 1916: | Transferred 50th Infantry Battalion, Went over to France from Australia. | |
| 18 Oct 1916: | Transferred 50th Infantry Battalion, Caught a sickness and had to go to hospital. | |
| 18 Oct 1916: | Transferred 50th Infantry Battalion, Caused a disturbance in hospital and had detention for 7 days. | |
| 27 Aug 1917: | Transferred 50th Infantry Battalion, Went back to hospital with a disease. | |
| 28 Mar 1918: | Wounded 2524, 50th Infantry Battalion, He was wounded and had to be put back into hospital. | |
| 26 Jul 1918: | Discharged Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Forces (New Guinea 1914), 2524, 50th Infantry Battalion, He was discharged, reason being: immobilization. | |
| 11 Sep 1918: | Wounded 2524, 50th Infantry Battalion, He was re-wounded and got sick from the wound and put back into hospital. | |
| 26 Oct 1918: | Transferred Private, 50th Infantry Battalion, Ran from battlefield, sentenced 90 days detention. | |
| 3 May 1919: | Transferred Private, 50th Infantry Battalion, Returned home to Australia. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Harrison Davies
Alfred Edward Davies was born in Broken Hill, 1897. He stayed and grew up in Broken Hill and went to the Broken Hill School. He was a labourer there before he left to go to the war. He was nineteen and a half when he signed up to go to war. He enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia. He was not married, had no children and was an only child in his family.
He arrived in France on the 17th of October, 1916. He caught a sickness as soon as he arrived and was hospitalised in France. When he was in the hospital, he caused an unknown disturbance inside. He had to spend seven days in detention. A few months passed and Alfred Edward Davies had to be transferred back into hospital because he had caught another disease.
After spending that time in hospital, he was put back on to the battlefield in Loker, Belgium and was wounded. He was in the hospital for four weeks healing from the wound. Three months after he was released from hospital he was re-wounded and he caught a sickness from the wound and was put back in to the hospital staying there for two months, longer than expected. When he went back on to the battlefield, he ran away from the battle. He was found in Ireland and when he got back, he found not guilty of desertion but guilty of going AWOL and was sentenced to ninety days detention.
He later returned to Australia in 1919.
It is not known exactly when he passed away but it is known that he passed away sometime between 1919 and 1924 and he was buried in the Broken Hill Cemetery. His time in the war was very difficult and it was challenging both physicallay and mentally. The death and destruction witnessed would have been tough for anyone in the war.
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