Alfred Joseph HART

HART, Alfred Joseph

Service Number: Officer
Enlisted: 13 June 1915, Seymour, Vic.
Last Rank: Second Lieutenant
Last Unit: 22nd Infantry Battalion
Born: Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 8 November 1886
Home Town: Red Hill, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Toowoomba Grammar School, Queensland, Australia and Sydney University, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation: School Master, Trinity Grammar School, Kew, Victoria, Australia
Died: Killed In Action, France, 27 July 1916, aged 29 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Picardie, France
Memorials: Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 Honour Board, Toowoomba Grammar School WW1 In Memoriam Honour Board, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial), Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Eber George and Mary Ellen Hart

"Alfred Joseph Memorial Prize" awarded to Dux of Trinity Grammar School

Mrs. G.C. Arnold, a member of the council of Trinity Grammar School, Kew, on Saturday received a cablegram announcing the death in action in France of Lieut. A.J. Hart, who prior to enlistment was one of the masters of the school.  When made known in Kew yesterday, the news was received with keen regreg by a large number of those who had attended the school, by whom Mr. Hart was greatly esteemed.

Mrs Anderson, hon. secretary of the Red Cross Society, has just received word that her brother, Lieutenant A. J. Hart is reported as killed in action. The late Lieutenant Hart received his education in the Toowoomba Grammar School, where he passed the junior and senior university examinations. At the time of his enlistment he was assistant master  at the Church of England Grammar School, Kew, Victoria.

 

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