KENTISH, Alfred
| Service Number: | 4813 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 May 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 54th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 26 August 1897 |
| Home Town: | Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Waratah Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 19 July 1916, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Name inscribed on the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. Panel 10. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR, Lambton Park Memorial Gates, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 14 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4813 | |
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| 8 Mar 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4813, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of England embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4813, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Star of England, Sydney | |
| 28 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 54th Infantry Battalion | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4813, 54th Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4813 awm_unit: 54th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-19 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
From Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 19th July 1916, Private Alfred Kentish, 54th Battalion (Reg No-4813), single driver (Hexham J & A Brown Workshops), from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, was Killed in Action during the Battle of Fromelles, age 18 years 10 months. Cause of death unknown.
No Roll of Honour circular summited.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 26th August 1897 to William Richard (died 11.11.1942, Lambton, N.S.W., age 84), from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, and Rosannah Kentish nee Cock (Roseanna, Rosanna, died 20.4.1944, Lambton, N.S.W., age 80, mother of 12, sleeping at METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) E SW. 22, from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, Alf enlisted on the 14th August 1915 with the 2nd Battalion, age 17 years 11 months, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A15 Star of England on the 8th March 1916.
Taken on Strength 54th Battalion 20.4.1916.
Disembarked Marseilles, France 29.6.1916.
Alf’s name has been inscribed on the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. Panel 10.
Place of Association - Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Kentish’s name has also been inscribed on the Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, Lambton Park Citizens' Memorial Gates, Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor, Lambton Rose of Australia Lodge G.U.O.O.F. Roll of Honour, Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour, Hexham J & A Brown Workshops Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
3 brothers served 1st A.I.F.
Older brother Arthur Kentish (born 10.1.1893, Lambton, New South Wales, single blacksmith's striker (Morison & Bearby Limited), from 83 Young Road, Lambton, New South Wales, enlisted 22.1.1915, 13th Battalion, Reg No-1772, RTA 7.9.1915 (dysentery), re-embarked 16.2.1916, wounded in action - 8.7.1916 (GSW shoulder, severe), KIA 4th February 1917, possibly at the "Stormy Trench" attack at Gueudecourt, Northern France, 1st to the 5th February 1917, cause of death unknown, age-24, name inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16184695/arthur-kentish), memorialised same location.
Older brother James Edward Kentish (born 19.2.1889, West Maitland, New South Wales, railway porter from Werris Creek, New South Wales, enlisted 13.11.1915, 1st ANZAC Battalion, Imperial Camel Corps, Reg No-1100, RTA 20.12.1917, died 29.6.1943, Rozelle, N.S.W., age-54, privately interred Rookwood Cemetery.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Kentish gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their boys for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) E SW. 22.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
The Fromelles Association of Australia - https://fromelles.info/association/fact-sheets/ are asking for DNA samples for family connections to this soldier so visit the Fromelles Descendant Database - https://www.facebook.com/groups/353275321398458 or Missing soldier relatives database - https://www.army.gov.au/.../missing-soldier-relatives...
Not profiled on The Fromelles Association of Australia.
Lest We Forget.
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