CAMPER, Alan Lyle
| Service Number: | 1219 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 November 1914, Blackboy Hill, W.A. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 14th Australian General Hospital |
| Born: | Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia, 25 December 1883 |
| Home Town: | Mount Lawley, Vincent, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Wentworth & Hay Public Schools, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Illness, Lady Davidson Home, Turramurra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 29 July 1941, aged 57 years |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW |
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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Alan Lyle CAMPER was born in Wentworth, New South Wales on 25th December, 1883
His parents were William CAMPER & Eleanor Julia SCOTT who married in Wentworth in 1875
He enlisted in Blackboy Hill, Western Australia on 5th November, 1914 and embarked with the 2nd Stationary Hospital from Fremantle , WA on the ship Kyarra on 14th December, 1914
He returned to Australia on 2nd August, 1919 on the ship HMAT Delta and was discharged on 9th November, 1919 - his final rank was Sergeant with the 14th Australian General Hospital
Alan married Gladys Eva MOULE in Sydney in 1936 - Gladys was a Staff Nurse and also served during WW1
He died on 29th July, 1941 at the Lady Davidson Home in Turramurra, Sydney and was cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium in North Ryde
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His brother William Valentine CAMPER (SN2659) & (SN326) served in both the Boer War and World War 1 and returned to Australia in 1918
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