ALEXANDER, Myles
Service Number: | 6224 |
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Enlisted: | 3 April 1916 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Dunedin, New Zealand , date not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Geraldton, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Illness (Pneumonia), United Kingdom, 19 December 1916, age not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Southall (Havelock) Cemetery, Middlesex, United Kingdom Southall (Hortus) Cemetery, Southall, Ealing, England, United Kingdom |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geraldton District Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
3 Apr 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private | |
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18 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6224, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
18 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6224, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Myles was who was a miner by trade was well known on the fiields his many friends presented him with a pipe at a social gathering they held in his honour. He left behind a wife seven children, all boys.
Biography contributed by Lia Crisa
Myles Alexander was born in 1874 in Dunedin, New Zealand and grew up in Cue, Western Australia. Myles was a miner before he enlisted into the war. He did not have a previous record of any military service and he was married. Myles Alexander was 5’8 and his religion was at the Church of England.
Myles Alexander enlisted on the 3rd of April 1916 at Blackboy Hill, Western Australia. He embarked at the age of 43 in Fremantle, Western Australia on the 18 of September 1916. The ship he was on was called the HMAT Clan McGillivray A46. Myles was not wounded or killed in action, but he became sick during the war from pneumonia. He sadly died on the 19th of December in 1916 in Middlesex, United Kingdom at age 42.
Myles Alexander did not return back home and there is no other information about his wife, except that they had seven boys. He is buried in Southall Cemetery (Row X2, Grave 2), Middlesex, England.