LUDWICK, Alexander Henry
| Service Number: | V84758 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Auxiliary Horse Transport Company/ies |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 15 February 1904 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Iron Worker |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 28 August 2001, aged 97 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V84758 | |
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| 19 Nov 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V84758, Auxiliary Horse Transport Company/ies |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alexander Henry Ludwick (Service No:V84758) served with the ACMF from 10 June 1940 to 19 Novemebr 1943. Private Ludwick was attached to 1st and 6th Auxiliary Horse Transport Coys AASC. His father (Alexander; Private; Service No:1230) served in WWI and brother Frank (Sergeant; Service No:QX1651) served in WWII.
Alex was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1904, second of nine children (five survived childhood) of Alexander Henry Ludwick Snr (b1881 in Benalla, Victoria) and his first wife Esther Jessie Orr Moffatt (b1881 in Costerfield, Bendigo, Victoria). Alexander (a Labourer) and Esther married in Benalla in 1902, and settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Alexander was a General Dealer. Alexander served in the AIF in WWI, and following Esther's death in 1916, remarried in 1920 and lived in Melbourne where he was a Labourer.
Alex worked as a Pipe Layer for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works in Melbourne where, in 1928 he married his first wife Ivy May Sherman (b1909 in Melbourne, Victoria). Alex and Ivy separated shortly afterwards - Alex worked in Mildura as a Sewer Worker and in Melbourne as a Labourer - and Divorced in 1936. In 1938 in Melbourne, Alex was an Iron Worker when he married Ruby (Glad) Gladys Stephens (b1911 in Geelong, Victoria). Alex and Glad settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and Alex was a Labourer and Process Worker. Glad died in 1999 and Alex in 2001.
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