ALEXANDER, George
| Service Number: | 701 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 October 1914, Enlisted at Meeniyan, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 4th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 1873 |
| Home Town: | Pitfield, Golden Plains, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver; Bush Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Bapaume, Somme Sector, France, 25 March 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 701, 4th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Meeniyan, Victoria | |
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| 3 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 701, 4th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Katuna embarkation_ship_number: A13 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 701, 4th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Katuna, Melbourne | |
| 25 Mar 1917: | Involvement Trooper, 701, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 701 awm_unit: Light Horse awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1917-03-25 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
On enlistment his next of kin listed as Emma Watterson of Pitfield, Victoria
Husband of Annie Mary Alexander of 15 Luna Street, Chelsea, London, UK
Father of Ivy C. Birrell of 56 Harp Road, East Kew, Victoria
Courty of inquirey told by Private G. S. T. Stanley of the 4th Light Horse Regiment that: I knew Troopers [701] Geo. Alexander and Fred Adams. I saw them both in the Bapaume Town Hall on the day it was blown up, about 7 p.m. They were billeted there. It was blown up about midnight. Troopers Joe Lloyd, and Patterson, in the same unit as these boys were dug out of the debris about 12 hours after, along with a mate. A number of bodies were recovered, but so mutiliated that they were unreconisable. There were about 30 men, and some Officers sleeping in the building the same night. Two Officers were dug out alive. Lloyd and Patterson told me that they saw both of these boys about 9 p.m. before going to bunk.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal