Alexander Russell RACKSTRAW

RACKSTRAW, Alexander Russell

    Service Number: 372
    Enlisted: 19 September 1914, Enlisted at Toora, Victoria
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Toora, Vitoria, Australia, 1892
    Home Town: Port Welshpool, South Gippsland, Victoria
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Fisherman
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 30 April 1915
    Cemetery: Courtney’s and Steel's Post Cemetery
    Special Memorial, Grave 50 Headstone inscription reads: Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for his country, Courtney's and Steel's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Port Welshpool Private Alexander Russell Rackstraw Memorial Plaque, Toora Australian Natives Association Roll of Honour, Welshpool & District War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    19 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 372, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Toora, Victoria
    22 Dec 1914: Involvement Corporal, 372, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
    22 Dec 1914: Embarked Corporal, 372, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
    30 Apr 1915: Involvement Private, 372, 14th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 372 awm_unit: 14 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1915-04-30

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Francis Henry Rackstraw and Catherine Rackstraw nee McLeod of Port Welshpool, Victoria. Brother of Kathleen Audrey Rackstraw, Cecil Milbourne Rackstraw, Henrietta Pauline Rackstraw, Ralph Ganeham Rackstraw and Wilfred Rackstraw who returned to Australia on 3 September 1919 having served with the Army Medical Corp

    Next of kin later given as Ralph Ganeham Rackstraw

    Medals; 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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