MOORE, Alfred Norman
| Service Number: | 880 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 November 1914, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Port Fairy, Moyne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Port Fairy State School |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 6 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Fairy School Roll of Honor, Port Fairy St. John's Anglican Church Roll of Honor WW1, Port Fairy War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 880, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 13 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 880, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 880, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne | |
| 6 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 880, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 880 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-11-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas and Louisa MOORE, Albert Street, Port Fairy, Victoria
PRIVATE ALFRED MOORE.
Very deep sympathy was expressed on all sides on Saturday when it be came known that Mr and Mrs T. Moore, of Albert-street, had received intelligence, through the Rev W. O. Jessop, that their second son, Alfred, aged 24 years, had laid down his life on November 6,and now is numbered among our honored dead in France.
The brave young man is the second victim which this heroic family has had wrested from it during the course of the all-devouring war, Will (the eldest son) having been killed in action but little more than 3 months ago.
Alfred was one of the early volunteers, having enlisted in December, I1914, with the 4th Light Horse, and went into training at Broadmeadows Camp, embarking for Egypt in March, g1915. Eleven days after arrival there, he volunteered as a member of the infantry brigade to go to Gallipoli (in May), and went right through the campaign up to the evacuation, proceeding then to France, where he joined the Anzac Cycle Corps of which he was a member till killed in action on November 6.
Previous to enlisting, he was engaged in farming pursuits. From boyhood upwards he was a general favorite-beloved by all, by reason of his kindly and obliging disposition, and was never so happy as when rendering anyone some little kindness. Privates Jim and Tom Moore are at present in Egypt serving the Empire.
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