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HOWAT, Alfred Charles

Service Number:	219
Enlisted:	9 September 1914
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered
Home Town:	South Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, 27 April 1915, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Courtney’s and Steel's Post Cemetery Special Memorial, Grave 27 Headstone Inscription "ONE CROWDED HOUR OF GLORIOUS LIFE,IS WORTH AN AGE WITHOUT A NAME"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

9 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Corporal, 219, 14th Infantry Battalion
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Corporal, 219, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Corporal, 219, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
27 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 219, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Killed in action

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Biography contributed by Daryl Jones

Son of James and Annie Isabella HOWAT, of 10 Perrin St., South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.