DEVESON, Albert Edmund Robert
| Service Number: | 7106 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | 1898, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Foreman's Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 7106, 1st Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 7106, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
Albert Edmond Robert DEVESON, born in 1898, was known to the NSWGR simply as ‘Albert Deveson’ when he joined them in March 1915 as a shop boy at Eveleigh. In October 1915 he was made a foreman’s clerk. He enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool in May 1916.
Submitted 13 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by VWM Australia
Enlisted and served as Albert Edmond Robert Deveson
Biography contributed by John Oakes
Albert Edmond Robert DEVESON was born in 1898. He joined the NSW Government Railways in March 1915 as a shop boy at Eveleigh. In October 1915 he was made a foreman’s clerk. He enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool in May 1916.
He embarked at Sydney in November 1916. He landed in England in January 1917. He spent two weeks in hospital with Influenza. In May 1917 he was sent to France. He joined his battalion there at the end of the month. After a week in hospital sick in July-August, he re-joined the unit in August. He was reported missing on 4th October 1917 while attached to the Engineers. This report was amended to ‘killed in action’ two months later.
He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board