CADMAN, Alfred
| Other Name: | GRUBY, John Alfred - Service Record |
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| Service Number: | 4744 |
| Enlisted: | 27 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, August 1886 |
| Home Town: | Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action , France, 5 May 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4744, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 4744, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 4744, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
(Served as GRUBY, A. J.). Son of the late John and Mary Ann Cadman.
Pastor, W. J. Taylor, of the Church of Christ, was requested by the Defence Department to convey the sad intelligence of the death of Private Alfred John Grueby, to his father, John Grueby,
of 12 Earl-street. Private Grueby was the eldest son. He was killed in action in France between May 5 and 8.
GRUBY.—Killed in action in France, between 5th and 8th May, Alfred John Cadman Gruby, dearly beloved adopted son of John and S. Gruby, 12 Earl-street, aged 30 years.
Somewhere in France he is lying,
He answered his country's call;
He died an Australian hero,
Fighting to save us all.
—Inserted by his loving mother, S. Gruby, and father J Gruby.
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