Alben OLSSON

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Service Number:	718
Enlisted:	18 April 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Helsingborg/Höganäs, Sweden, 12 August 1889
Home Town:	Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Drover
Died:	Heart Attack, Höganäs, Sweden, 9 June 1968, aged 78 years
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

18 Apr 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
25 Jun 1915:	Involvement Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
25 Jun 1915:	Embarked Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Sydney
22 Aug 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, Wound to the abdomen
2 Nov 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, Second occasion. Gassed. Embarked for England on 13 November 1917
16 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 718, 18th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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True name said to be Albin Olausson

Address at the time of enlistment was given as C/- a friend Sydney Perkin of King Street, Newtown, NSW.

On 21 July 1918 Alben married Ethel May Butcher in the Primitive Methodist Church, Isle of Wight. W.E. Bellow, Minister, officiated

Commenced return to Australia on 2 January 1919 aboard HT Berrima disembarking on 17 February 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal