KELLY, Albert Allen
| Service Number: | 104 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carroll, New South Wales, November 1895 |
| Home Town: | Carroll, Gunnedah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Windsor, New South Wales, 1972 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Carroll and District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 2 Oct 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 20th Infantry Battalion | |
| 25 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 62nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 2 Sep 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, GSW arm | |
| 29 Dec 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, GSW right hand | |
| 31 Jul 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, 'Malta'for return to Australia - arrives September 29, 1918 | |
| 12 Dec 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 104, 34th Infantry Battalion, Medically Unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Silver
Albert Kelly's mum, Amy was among the hundreds of spectators in Gunnedah, New South Wales as the Wallaby March swung down Conadilly Street. Amy had the best vantage point - from the balcony of the Grand Central Hotel, cheering the local lads that had linked up with the recruitment march.
With total astonishment she remarked: "That looks like our Bert!" It certainly was "our Bert" - Albert Alan Kelly, 19 years of age and son of Albert Edward and Florence Amy Kelly, of Carroll near Gunnedah.
Bert certainly caught the family by surprise - but if he was going with Wallabies to join up, Amy insisted that he wasn't going in his old boots. So she bought him a new pair. Bert marched out the next day but was only on the road a day or so before he had huge blisters on his feet and had to catch the 'sag wagon'. His cousin, Patrick John Kelly also joined the Wallabies and went all the way to Maitland to enlist.
Private Albert Kelly was drafted into the 34th Battalion and arrived on the Western Front in October 1916. After suffering trench feet he returned to his unit in 1917. In March 1918 he was wounded in the right arm. The wound left him with a permanent disability, as he was unable to clench his fist and the palm of his right hand faced front-on.
Invalided home before the end of the war, he trained as a teacher after being discharged and mainly taught at small schools across New South Wales including Bithramere, Gulf Creek, Capertee and Rouse Hill. He married Marjorie Fulton at Tamworth in 1923 and they had three children. Bert Kelly died at Windsor, New South Wales in 1972.
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