SPEIGHT, Alfred
| Service Number: | 6136 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Leeds, Yorkshire, England, October 1889 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Boilermaker |
| Died: | Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, 21 June 1957, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6136, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6136, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6136, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 9 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6136, 3rd Infantry Battalion, embarked England for Sydney on board the Argyllshire | |
| 8 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6136, 3rd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alfred Speight (Service No:6136) enlisted in the AIF on 20 March 1916, and was attached to 3rd Infantry Battalion on 22 August 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for Folkestone on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire. Private Speight served with 3rd Infantry Battalion on the Western Front. and embarked from England for Sydney on 9 December 1918 on board HT Argyllshire. Private Speight was attached to 3rd Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 8 July 1919.
Alf was born in Yorkshire, England in 1889, second of four children of William Speight (b1861 in Yorkshire, England) and Maria/Mary Alderson (b1859 in Yorkshire, England). William (a Boilermaker) and Maria (a Cloth Filler) married in 1881 in Yorkshire, where they settled and raised their family and William worked as a Boilermaker.
Alf worked as a Boilermaker's Striker in Yorkshire before immigrating in 1912 - arriving in Sydney on board the Zealandic. Alf worked as a Boilermaker in Sydney, then in Melbourne in 1914 before returning to Sydney, where he enlisted in the Army in 1915. He met Ada May Elizabeth Pettet (nee Prosser;b1884 in Melbourne, Victoria) in 1914 in Melbourne, and the couple moved to Sydney in 1915. Alf listed Ada as his wife in his Attestation Papers, and following his Discharge in 1919 and Ada's divorce in 1920, the couple married in 1920 in Melbourne. Alf worked as a Labourer in Melbourne before he and Ada moved their family to Bendigo, where Alf was a Railways Employee. In the early 1940s Alf and Ada returned to Melbourne, where Alf died in 1957. Ada died in 1962.
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