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CUNNINGHAM, Alfred Thomas
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 5657 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 March 1916, Enlisted Melbourne allocated to 18th reinforcement’s 14th Battalion at Broadmeadows Camp Victoria on 1st April 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Williamstown State School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural Causes , Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, 2 September 1957 |
| Cemetery: |
Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Methodist Section |
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World War 1 Service
| 2 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted Melbourne allocated to 18th reinforcement’s 14th Battalion at Broadmeadows Camp Victoria on 1st April 1916 | |
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| 27 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd and 4th Training Brigades, March in Ex Australian reinforcement’s for 14th infantry Battalion Codford UK | |
| 4 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1917: | Embarked Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 22 Jun 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Infantry Battalion, Taken on Strength of the 14th Battalion in the field Belgium | |
| 15 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, At 5am on the Ypres front was in a strong post when a shell blew it all up. Was buried for some time, when he was dug it sent to dressing up station | |
| 11 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, Wounded in action on active service deafness | |
| 29 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", Evacuated to Graylingwell War Hospital Chinchester UK Fever unknown origin-pyrexria | |
| 6 Mar 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 5657, 14th Infantry Battalion, Discharged 3MD Melbourne medically unfit wounded shell Shock |
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