PLATE, Alan Charles
| Service Number: | 682 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 November 1916, Adelaide, SA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 8 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | 10 March 1972, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne A F Alway Lawn, Row N, Grave 20 |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Nar Nar Goon Commercial Bank of Australia Limited WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 682, 8th Machine Gun Company, Adelaide, SA | |
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| 21 Jun 1917: | Involvement Private, 682, 8th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Jun 1917: | Embarked Private, 682, 8th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
682a Alan Charles PLATE was born at Mount Gambier on 8 May 1896 and was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 24 September 1909 by his father, Albert John Plate, of Wehl Street, Mount Gambier. He left school on 26 September 1910. A report in the Border Watch in 1913 described him as a ledger-keeper in the Commercial Bank at Mount Gambier.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 21 November 1916 (20, clerk, single, Presbyterian) naming his mother, Mrs Matilda Francis Plate of Mount Gambier, as his next of kin. He embarked from Melbourne on the ‘Suevic’ on 21 June 1917, disembarked at Liverpool in England on 26 August and was attached first to the 8th Training Battalion, and was then transferred to the 15th Training Battalion on 5 November 1917. Sent overseas to France on 18 December, he joined the 38th Battalion on 24 December in Belgium where it was based until being moved to France in late March and used to help blunt the German Spring Offensive. He was transferred to the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion on 29 April 1918, had an ‘A’ added to his regimental number, and served with this unit until the end of the war. He went on leave from 5 to 17 November 1918, transferred to Administrative Headquarters in London on 6 December 1918 and attached to the Australian Pay Corps. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 June 1919 and left England for return to Australia aboard the ‘Bahia Castillo’ on 14 April 1920, disembarking on 16 June and was discharged on 2 August.
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