Alfred Edgar HOLLAND

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HOLLAND, Alfred Edgar

Service Number:	4044
Enlisted:	31 August 1915, 4 years senior Cadets 6 months AMC
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, February 1897
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Convent (Catholic) School, , Tasmania, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium , 19 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 29), Belgium, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Launceston Cenotaph, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

31 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4044, 15th Infantry Battalion, 4 years senior Cadets 6 months AMC
24 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 4044, 15th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
24 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 4044, 15th Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
22 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 52nd Infantry Battalion
19 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 4044, 52nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4044 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-19

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From 52nd Battalion AIF

Pte Alfred HOLLAND had served in the Cadets pre-war. Enlisting in August 1915, he left Australia with the 12th Reinforcements to the 15th Bn in November. Briefly transferred to the 47th Bn in Egypt, he joined the 52nd in March 1916. He was admitted to hospital for pleurisy during May and June 1917. He eventually rejoined the unit on 5 October. And 14 days later, he was dead, killed by the shelling at Broodseinde Ridge.

His brother also served: Private Sidney George Holland #800, 7th Machine Gun Company, Killed in Action, 28 July 1918.

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