MOXEY, Albert Edward
| Service Number: | 837 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 20 October 1889 |
| Home Town: | Cessnock, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Wounds, 11th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France , 13 May 1918, aged 28 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block P, Plot XI, Row I, Grave No. IIB |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 837, 34th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 837, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 837, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
105 years ago today, on the 13th May 1918, Private Albert Edward Moxey, 34th Battalion (Reg No-837), miner (Aberdare Colliery), from Mayfield Street, Cessnock, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 11th Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France (GSW left leg), received at the Battle of Morlancourt, France, age 28 years 7 months.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 20th October 1889 to Richard (died 26.3.1889, buried here) of 355 Melville Street, The Junction, N.S.W. and Catherine Moxey (remarried to Thomas SHERGOLD 1891, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 30.1.1930, Cessnock, N.S.W., age 79) of Mayfield Street, Cessnock, N.S.W. and Chapman Street, Bridges Hill, N.S.W., Albert enlisted on the 8th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Admitted to hospital 31.5.1917 (adenitis), 12.10.1917 (exhaustion and chills), 4.1.1918 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 7.5.1918 (GSW left leg).
Albert is resting at St. Sever Cemetery Extension, France. Block P Plot XI Row I Grave No. IIB.
Mr. Moxey’s name has been inscribed on the Cessnock War Memorial. Name not inscribed on the Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour. A member of the Pride of Cessnock Lodge, No. 113, Protestant Alliance Friendly Society of Australasia.
Place of Association – Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
There is no headstone at the gravesite for father Richard, therefore no memorial inscription to tell us of the loss of his son during The Great War, so on the 13th May 2021 I erected a Memorial cross adorned with poppies in remembrance of Albert’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) C NE. 6.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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