WESTBROOK, Baxter
| Other Name: | WESTBROOK, Alfred Baxter - Burial Records |
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| Service Number: | 493 |
| Enlisted: | 17 August 1914, Helena Vale, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 11th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Prahran, Victoria, Australia, 7 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | War Related injuries, K.E.M.H. Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia, 9 November 1925, aged 34 years |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Wesleyan-Ba-0538 |
| Memorials: | Canning District R.S.L. Memorial, Fremantle Scots Church Honour Roll, Fremantle Wesley Uniting Church Great War Honour Roll, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Victoria Park War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 493, 11th Infantry Battalion, Helena Vale, WA | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 493, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 493, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfred Edmund WESTBROOK of Cole Street, Elsternwick, Victoria and Annie Beatrice nee BRADLEY of Star Street, Victoria Park East, Western Australia
Sergeant Alfred Baxter (Baxter) Westbrook (1891-1925), a labourer, enlisted on 8 September 1914 in Fremantle, WA. He served with the 11th Battalion, was wounded in France in July 1916 (where he was wrongly reported to have died of his wounds).
The many friends of Sergeant Baxter Westbrook (who was reported killed on July 24) will be pleased to hear that a letter dated in August. has been received from him. He stated that he had been wounded in the foot and was in a hospital at Ramsgate. He expected that this accident would keep him out of action for three months.
He was wounded a second time, this time seriously, in September 1918 and his left arm was amputated below the elbow. Returning to Australia, he was discharged medically unfit in Perth on 25 October 1919. He died of war related causes in 1925.
Married Olive May nee SHRUGG in 1919
WESTBROOK -On November 9. at E.M.H. Sergeant A. B. Westbrook (11th Battalion), devoted husband of Olive, loving daddy of Jean and Brian, of Nicholson-road. Subiaco, loved son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A. Shugg. Only good night, beloved.
WESTBROOK.-On November 9, at E.M.H. Sergeant Alfred Baxter Westbrook, 11th Battalion, dearly loved son of Mrs. Annie Westbrook, brother of Frank (Victoria). Maude (Mrs. A. Shugg). Hugh, and Dorothy (Mrs. R. A. Davies), Western Australia.