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FREE, Albert Ernest

Service Numbers:	414, 414A
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Corack, Victoria, Australia, 4 April 1894
Home Town:	Lalbert, Gannawarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 23 years
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), Wandong War Memorial

World War 1 Service

20 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 414, 15th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 414, 15th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
12 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 414A, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 414A awm_unit: 3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-12

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Biography contributed by Kerry Free

Son of Samuel and Fanny FREE. of Lalbert, Victoria, Australia.