WOOLHOUSE, Albert
| Service Number: | 1751 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 59th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Greenough, Western Australia , 1889 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | State School |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 26 September 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 1751, 59th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 1751, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His father 1741 Private John Vernon Woolhouse 51st Battalion died of illness in France 18 August 1916. He was buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
1751 Private Albert Woolhouse 59th Battalion AIF, was a married man of 27, and he enlisted in Melbourne only a month after his father, in February 1916. He arrived in France, via Egypt and England, in the first week of January 1917, and he was at first reported wounded and missing during the Battle of Polygon Wood in Belgium, on the 26 September 1917. Witnesses said that he was hit in the legs by shrapnel on this day, and was taken away by stretcher bearers to the regimental aid post but nothing was ever seen of him or the stretcher bearers again. In his file it is stated that he was buried near the rear of Hooge Crater by the 5th Division burial officer, the next day 27 September 1917, but as his remains were never found he is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, in Belgium.
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