MCALISTER, Henry Maxwell
| Service Number: | 12358 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 August 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Clunes, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Clunes, Hepburn, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Public Servant |
| Died: | 10 April 1957, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: | Clunes Soldiers Pictorial Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 20 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, HMAT Runic, Melbourne | |
| 1 May 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 10th Field Ambulance, France | |
| 7 Jun 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, Battle of Messines | |
| 4 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, Broodseinde Ridge, GSW to ear. Evacuated to hospital (France). | |
| 14 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Field Ambulance, France | |
| 1 Jan 1918: | Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Third Ypres | |
| 10 Jan 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 10th Field Ambulance, France | |
| 30 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, German Spring Offensive 1918 | |
| 8 Aug 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, "The Last Hundred Days" | |
| 30 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal | |
| 21 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 12358, 10th Field Ambulance, RTA 2 June 1919 (nursing staff) and discharged (TPE). |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Henry Maxwell McAlister enlisted in the AIF in Melbourne on 20 August 1915, aged 21. He embarked overseas on 20 June 1916 and arrived in England on 10 August. He left England for France on 24 November 1916. On 1 May 1917 he was promoted to Lance Corporal.
He saw his first major action during the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917, and then again on 4 October 1917 at Broodseinde Ridge, where he received a gunshot wound to his ear and was hospitalised. He re-joined his unit on 10 January 1918.
On 1 January 1918, he was mentioned in Field Marshall Haig’s despatches for his “distinguished and gallant service” during the period February – September 1917.
During 1918, the final year of the war, his battalion saw further action at Morlancourt (March – April), Amiens (August) and the Hindenburg Line (September).
He left France and arrived back in England on 15 April 1919.
He embarked for Australia on 2 June 1919 and arrived in Melbourne on 19 July, where he was formally discharged from the AIF on 21 September 1919.
Source: Extract from "Clunes Soldiers Memorial Panel" by Robert Wight, June 2022.
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