BARNES, Alfred
| Service Number: | 1255 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 January 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps |
| Born: | Young, New South Wales, Australia, 22 September 1889 |
| Home Town: | Waratah, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Mayfield Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 8 August 1946, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-132. 1. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jan 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1255, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps | |
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| 6 Feb 1918: | Involvement Private, 1255, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Morinda embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 6 Feb 1918: | Embarked Private, 1255, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps, SS Morinda, Sydney | |
| 16 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1255, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
79 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 9th August 1946, Private Alfred Barnes, referred to as Snowy, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, Army Medical Corps (Reg No-1255), married labourer from Smart Street, Waratah, New South Wales and 14 Sunnyside Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1939) and 7 Frith Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1942), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 56. ANGLICAN 2-132. 1.
Born at Young, New South Wales on the 22nd September 1889 to George and Margaret or Mary Barnes; husband of Ellen Agnes Barnes nee Leahey, married 1915, Waratah, N.S.W., died 26.7.1939, Wallsend, N.S.W., age 43, mother of 4?, sleeping here, from 14 Sunnyside Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., Snowy enlisted on the 27th December 1917 at Waratah, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Morinda on the 6th February 1918.
Allotted Reg No-1255, 23.2.1918.
Left Rabaul on furlough 23.3.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 12.3.1919.
Snowy arrived home on the 29th March 1919, being discharged on the 16th April 1919.
Did not serve in a theatre of war, therefore was not granted Victory Medal.
Mr. Barnes’s name has been inscribed on the Mayfield Public School Honour Roll.
I have placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label at Snowy’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Also served WW2, enlisted 26.1.1942, Adamstown, N.S.W., 31st Garrison Battalion, Service No-N393514, discharged medically unfit 1.3.1946.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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