FRECKLETON, Alfred Percy
| Service Number: | 3045 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Rokeby, Victoria, Australia, 1 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Rokeby, Baw Baw, Victoria |
| Schooling: | High School, Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School Teacher |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 December 1973, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne |
| Memorials: | Warragul Great European War Roll of Honor, Warragul High School Great War Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3045, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 29 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 3045, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 29 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 3045, 8th Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Adelaide | |
| 29 Sep 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
| 18 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3045, 59th Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board HMS Kinfauns Castle | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3045, 59th Infantry Battalion, France - shell shock | |
| 28 Oct 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3045, 59th Infantry Battalion, France: GSW leg | |
| 20 Nov 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, Army Pay Corps (AIF) | |
| 27 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3045, Army Pay Corps (AIF), embarked England for Melbourne on board HT Karoa | |
| 17 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 3045, Army Pay Corps (AIF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Sergeant Alfred Percy Freckleton (Service No:3045) enlisted in the AIF on 15 July 1915 and was attached to 8th Infantry Battalion when he embarked with his Unit from Adelaide, South Australia for Egypt on board HMAT Osterley. Private Freckleton served in Abassia, Tel el Kebir, Zeitoun and Heliopolis and was attached to 59th Infantry Battalion when he embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on board HMS Kinfouns Castle on 18 June 1916. Private Freckleton served in France with 59th Infantry Battalion and in 1916 was WiA on two occasions - shell shock and GSW to his leg. On 20 November 1918, he was a Lance Corporal attached to Australian Army Pay Corps, and embarked from England for Melbourne on 27 March 1919 on board HT Karoa. Sergeant Freckleton was attached to Pay Corps at Discharge on 17 July 1919.
Alfred (Percy) Percival was born in Buln Buln via Rokeby, Victoria in 1893, seventh of eight children of George Freckleton (b1846 at Port Fairy, Victoria) and Mary Jane Chesters (b1857 in Staffordshire, England). George (a Farmer) and Mary married in Benalla in 1876, and lived in Heywood, Crossover, Buln Buln and Rokeby, where they raised their family and George was a Farmer.
Percy was a School Teacher in Rokeby in 1915 when he enlisted in the AIF, and in 1919 was in Mardan, Mirboo working as a Teacher when he married Ella Maude Barham (b1899 in Denmark.Western Australia). Percy worked as a Teacher all his life - he and Ella lived in Boralma via Rutherglen, Dalyston via Wonthaggi, Poowong, Shepparton, Ararat and Timboon via Port Campbell. Percy retired in the early 1960s and he and Ella settled in Warragul before moving to Melbourne in the late 1980s. Percy died in 1973 and Ella in 1991.
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