Albert Henry EAGLETON

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EAGLETON, Albert Henry

Service Number:	3366
Enlisted:	2 August 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, January 1892
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Perth Boys School, Perth, Western Australia
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 11 August 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

2 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3366, 52nd Infantry Battalion
1 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3366, 12th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 3366, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Fremantle
11 Aug 1916:	Involvement Private, 3366, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3366 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-11

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From 52nd Battalion AIF

Private Albert Henry EAGLETON (#3366)

POZIERES, FRANCE – 11 AUGUST 1916
On 11 August, the 52nd was still in engaged in fatigue duties from the Brickfields near Pozieres. More were wounded from enemy shelling and one man was killed:

Private Albert Henry EAGLETON (#3366), 25 years old from Perth WA (born Melbourne VIC)
Killed in Action and commemorated at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France

Albert EAGLETON enlisted in August 1915 at age 23, leaving his job as a grocer and embarked with the 11th Reinforcements to the 12th Bn on 1 November. After arriving in Egypt, he was training with the 3rd Training Bn until transferred to the 52nd Bn on 3 March 1916. His service record is very brief; after proceeding to France, the next entry is ‘Killed in Action” on 11 August. He was originally buried near a sunken road southern east of Pozieres as reported by Chaplain Devine of the 12th Brigade; however this site was subsequently lost.

His mother, Robenia Cecilia Emma Watts (remarried) was the listed next of kin and the beneficiary of his entire will (as she had divorced his father in 1909 for desertion and adultery, but she had to wait until 1920 to be ‘approved’ to receive Albert’s medals.

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