WOOSTER, Alfred Clive
| Service Number: | 1472 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1915, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, 18 April 1896 |
| Home Town: | Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Parramatta District School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Student/Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Beersheba, Palestine, 2 November 1917, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Beersheba War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Jamberoo Memorial Arch, Kiama Methodist Church Honour Roll, Parramatta Leigh Memorial Church Memorial Windows, Parramatta Superior Public School Great War Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1472, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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| 4 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1472, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1472, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Sydney | |
| 31 Oct 1917: | Wounded Driver, 1472, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Beersheba, Bomb wounds | |
| 2 Nov 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 1472, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Battle of Beersheba, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1472 awm_unit: 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1917-11-22 |
Trooper Alfred Clive Wooster
From Peter Barnes
The previous post with the photograph of Private McGee got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a television channel that was dedicated to Australians who have served their country in war.
Private McGee’s remains were not found but that incredible photograph keeps him with us and to know who he was as a person who lived, I think would be a great thing to do. Stories like his and others who served our country in war would definitely be the most incredible Australian stories ever told.
Even after ten years, you would still be only scratching the surface of the stories of people who have gone to war.
The photograph on this page is of Trooper Alfred Clive Wooster, 2nd Light Horse.
He died of wounds on the 2nd of November, 1917, at Beersheba, aged 21. He was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth Maria Wooster, of Wignam St., Harris Park, Parramatta, New South Wales. Four of their sons served in WW1.
Trooper Wooster is buried in the Beersheba Military Cemetery in Israel.
Another incredible Australian story to be told.
Lest We Forget.
Submitted 12 September 2019 by Evan Evans
Biography contributed by John Edwards
"A Noble Sorrow. TROOPER A. C. WOOSTER'S DEATH.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wooster, of Wigram-street, Harris Park, Parramatta, have given, of their eight sons (some yet of tender age), four to fight for us and King and Empire. On Monday came word that one, Sergeant E. D. Wooster, had been mentioned in General Haigh's despatches. On Tuesday came word that the fourth son of the family and the fourth to enlist, Trooper A. C. Wooster, had died of wounds in Palestine on Nov. 2. The other sons are Dr. Wooster (Major Frank C. Wooster, 8th Field Ambulance, Army Medical Corps) and Private Norman Wooster (returned from active service, invalided). We will probably publish next week the portraits of the four gallant brothers, so popular here in Parramatta, and who have brought to their family name such renown. As was said, with sacred truth, comforting in the extreme, in a private letter received by the family, after the news of the death of the first in the family to fall (Clive):— "'Surely it is an honor to lay down one's life in that Holy Land where the Saviour of the world gave up His life.'' The letter expressed sympathy, then, with the bereaved in what the writer correctly termed their 'noble sorrow.' The news was conveyed to the mother, Mrs. E. M. Wooster, by the Rev T. H. Holmes, Methodist Minister of Parramatta, and the sympathy of the whole district goes out to the bereaved parents and the others of the family.
The deceased's name appears on the military list as: — 1472, Trooper Alfred Clive Wooster, of the 2nd Light Horse (1st Brigade). He had the cablegram brought by Mr. Holmes stated, died of wounds on November 2. He was formerly on the land down South, but he enlisted in Queensland, whilst on a trip North to see his brother, Dr. F. Wooster. As is stated above, only on Monday Mr. and Mrs. Woostor received from the Defence authorities of Australia a communication stating that Sergeant Eric David Wooster (who has been doing duty in the late terrific struggles in Flanders, in a company of stretcher-bearers) had been mentioned on April 9 by General Haigh for 'conspicuous services.' His brother, Clive, the soldier now 'gone west,' had been two years and a half on service." - from the Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate 17 Nov 1917 (nla.gov.au)
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