RICHARDSON, Alfred James
Service Number: | 2057 |
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Enlisted: | 18 September 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Aberfeldy, Victoria, Australia, 16 April 1888 |
Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Miner |
Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26 May 1955, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne The Victorian Garden of Remembrance |
Memorials: | Aberfeldy Seat of Remembrance |
World War 1 Service
18 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2057, 4th Light Horse Regiment | |
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28 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 2057, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
28 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 2057, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
12 May 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
22 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2057, 5th Infantry Battalion, France - GSW elbow | |
12 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2057, 5th Infantry Battalion, embarked Devonport for Melbourne on board HT Soudan | |
21 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2057, 5th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alfred James Richardson (Service No:2057) enlisted in the AIF on 18 September 1915 and was attached to 4th Light Horse Regiment when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne on board HMAT A32 Themistocles on 28 January 1916. Private Richardson served in France with 1st Anzac Cycle Corps and 5th Infantry Battalion, and was WiA on 22 September 1917 - evaucated to hospital in England with a GSW to his elbow. Private Richardson embarked from Devonport for Melbourne on 12 May 1919 on board HT Soudan and was attached to 5th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 21 August 1919.
In WWII, Private Richardson served in the ACMF (Private; Service No:V6854 with 6th Horse Transport Coy and Port Phillip Fortress Signals) from 16 October 1940 to 10 April 1941, and from 17 July 1941 to 4 February 1942 (Private; Service No:V17601) with 3 Garrison Brigade. In October 1942 he served in the Labour Corps (No:CV39274) on inland road building for a short period - he was Discharged as medically unfit on those three occasions.
Alfred was born in Alberfeldy, Victoria in 1898, fourth of ten children of Thomas Richardson (b1861 in Rushworth, Victoria) and Catherine Carldina Marcapolo (b1871 in Jordan, Victoria). Thomas (a Blacksmith) and Catherine married in 1891 in Alberfeldy, where they settled and raised their family and Thomas was a Blacksmith. Following Catherine's death in 1914, Thomas moved to Morwell where he worked as a Blacksmith and Labourer.
Alfred was a Miner when he enlisted in the AIF in 1915 and following his Discharge, worked as a Faceman (Miner drilling and blasting at the top of the mine) at Brown Coal Mine in Morwell, where in 1922 he married Ivy Catherine Burkett (b1901 in Melbourne, Victoria). Alfred and Ivy lived in Morwell where Alfred worked as a Miner before settling in Melbourne in the late 1930s. Alfred was an Iron Worker, Labourer and Horse Driver in Melbourne, where he died in 1955. Ivy died in 1977.