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BARTLETT, Allan Edward
| Service Numbers: | 54864, 193024 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 March 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | North Russian Expeditionary Force / Relief Force |
| Born: | Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia, 5 September 1900 |
| Home Town: | Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Timber Cutter |
| Died: | 28 November 1954, aged 54 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Carinya Gardens Cemetery, Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Mar 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 54864, 1st to 17th (VIC) Reinforcements | |
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| 5 Jun 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 54864, 1st to 17th (VIC) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 13 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 54864, 59th Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Jun 1919: | Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Private, 193024, North Russian Expeditionary Force / Relief Force , North Russia 1918-19, 201 Coy Royal Machine Gun Corps |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
54864 Allan Edward BARTLETT was born on 5 September 1900 at Mount Gambier. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 21 March 1914 by his father, William Bartlett, timber merchant, of Charles Street, Mount Gambier. He left the school on 20 November 1914.
He enlisted in Melbourne on 26 March 1918 (19, timber cutter, single, Church of England) naming his father, William Bartlett, of Crouch Street, Mount Gambier as his next of kin. He embarked from Sydney as a member of the 4th (Victorian) General Service Reinforcements on 5 June 1918 and disembarked in England on 11 August 1918. He was initially attached to the 14th Training Battalion (during which time he was hospitalised with a groin injury in October and a bout of measles in November) and later the 59th Battalion, though without ever seeing combat. Perhaps because of this, he asked to be discharged in London in June 1919 and joined the Russian Relief Force as a private (193024) in the Machine Gun Corps. This force saw action in support of White Russian forces that attempted unsuccessfully to defeat the communist Red Army in the Russian Civil War, following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Published in 'Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War' by Graeme Roulstone
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