PARKINSON, Albert Grandford
| Service Number: | 1377 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 March 1916, Ballarat, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 39th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1885 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, Ballarat, Vic. | |
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| 27 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 27 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, Broodseinde Ridge | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele | |
| 29 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Morlancourt | |
| 9 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1377, 39th Infantry Battalion, RTA 5 March 1919 and discharged as MU (illness) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Albert Grandford Parkinson, aged 31, enlisted in the AIF in Ballarat on 24 March 1916. He embarked overseas on 27 May and arrived in England on 18 July 1916, where he spent the next three months training on Salisbury Plain.
He left England and arrived in France on 23 November 1916. His battalion moved to Belgium in June 1917 and was involved in the Battle of Messines on 7 – 9 June 1917. They then saw further action at Broodseinde Ridge and First Passchendaele, both in October 1917, during the Battle of Third Ypres.
The battalion remained in Belgium until late March 1918 when it was rushed south to the Somme to help defend the area around Morlancourt during the German Spring Offensive.
Pte Parkinson contracted influenza in late June 1918 and was hospitalised in France for eight weeks, then transferred to hospital in England for a further three weeks. He was discharged on 11 September 1918 and eventually re-joined his unit in France on 3 December 1918.
He never fully recovered and returned to England on 31 December 1918, then departed for Australia on 5 March 1919. He arrived back in Melbourne on 25 April, where he was medically discharged from the AIF on 9 June 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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