WARREN, Alfred
| Service Number: | 6511 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 August 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 4 August 1898 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 6 April 1917, aged 18 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hobart Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6511, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 30 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 6511, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
| 30 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 6511, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
The son of John Henry and Lillian Mary Warren of Hobart, Tasmania. His older brother, 4087 Pte. John Thomas Warren 47th Battalion AIF, had died of wounds to his abdomen during the fighting at Pozieres on 10 August 1916, aged 24.
Their family put the following notice in the Hobart newspapers,
“WARREN.-In loving memory of our dear sons, Privates John Thomas Warren, 15th Battalion, died of wounds in France, August 10, 1916, aged 24 years; also his dear brother, Private Alfred Sydney Warren, 12th Battalion, killed in action April 6 or 12, 1917, aged 19 years. Sadly missed.
Two heroes they lived, two heroes they fell,
They gave their lives for a cause that is true,
Fighting for country, for home, and for you.
I can always see your dear face, Jack,
Through a mist of sorrowing tears;
But a mother's path is a broken heart.
Through many a lonely year.
Inserted by their loving father and mother,
sisters, and one loving brother in France.”
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