MILNE, Alexander
| Service Number: | 36644 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 February 1917, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, 22 July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Student |
| Died: | Natural causes, 1989, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 12 Feb 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 36644, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 5 Nov 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 36644, Field Artillery Brigades, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Sydney embarkation_ship_number: A15 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Nov 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 36644, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Port Sydney, Sydney | |
| 29 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 36644, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Horizon Christian School
Alexander Milne was 19 years of age when he enlisted in the First World War. That was in Sydney on the 12 of February 1917 as a gunner in the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, so he left his father in Geelong, Victoria and set off back to Sydney to embark for service abroad, aboard the HMAT Port Sydney, which departed from Sydney on the 5th of November bound for Port Suez, Alexandria, then on to Italy.
From there he traveled seven days by train to Cherbourg (France), then sailed across the channel to Southhampton arriving on the 24 January 1918. He returned to France on the 8th of April 1918.
After months of fighting there, he hospitalised in September 1918 at the 2nd General Hospital, in Le Havre, France, where he was looked after by a French-speaking Belgian family while he battled influenza.
Alexander returned to England in March 1919, Before he sailed for Australia on the 20th of June 1919 aboard the HT Konig Frederich August.
Many years after the war Alexander returned to visit the family that had looked after him while he was sick in the French hospital in Northern France.