FREE, Albert Ernest
Service Numbers: | 414, 414A |
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Enlisted: | 24 July 1916, Melbourne, Vic. |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
Born: | Corack, Victoria, Australia, 4 April 1894 |
Home Town: | Lalbert, Gannawarra, Victoria |
Schooling: | Talgitcha State School No 3347 |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 23 years |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Corack East & District War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Wandong War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Kerry Free
Son of Samuel and Fanny FREE. of Lalbert, Victoria, Australia.
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Statement, Red Cross File No 11160601A, 599 Pte G.L. DENNAN, 10th Machine Gun Company, 14 November 1919: 'He was with the Company at Passchendaele Ridge on the 12th October 1917, and was wounded with a machine gun bullet. He was left behind as we advanced, nothing was heard of him afterwards, although all kinds of enquiries were held with no result. Was known to all as "Bert".'
FREE - In sad and loving memory of my dear son, Albert Ernest (Bert) Free, killed in action, France, October 12th, 1917.
Sadly missed.
Inserted by his loving parents and brothers and sisters.