BOTTOMLEY, Albert Ernest
| Service Number: | 4711 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 April 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Rosewater, South Australia, Australia, 13 May 1897 |
| Home Town: | Rosewater (Greytown), Port Adelaide Enfield, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Porter, SAR |
| Died: | Died of wounds, 3rd Australian Field ambulance, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 20 years |
| Cemetery: |
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery Battery Corner Cemetery (Plot II, Row A, Grave No. 16), Ypres, Belgium, Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Rosewater Junction Community Centre Honour Board (small), Rosewater Womens Memorial Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Apr 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1 | |
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| 15 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4711, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 15 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4711, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4711, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jun 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4711, 3rd Australian General Hospital - WW1, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4711, 5th Field Ambulance, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4711 awm_unit: 5th Australian Field Ambulance awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04 |
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Medals: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Previous Military Service: 4 years Naval Reserves, Largs Bay, South Australia
Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA: 1910 - 1924) Friday 2 November 1917
LATE PRIVATE A. E. BOTTOMLEY.
Mrs. Bottomley, of James street, Paddington, near Rosewater, has been officially informed that her second son (Private A. E. Bottomley) died of wounds in France on October 4. Leaving South Australia in June, 1915, for Egypt he went from there to Lemnos, where he was stationed for six months. He volunteered in England to be transferred to the Field Ambulance last January. Prior to leaving this State, he was a railway porter at Alberton. He was educated at the Port Adelaide School, and was in his 21st year. His elder brother George has been wounded.
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