CHANT, Albert Ernest
| Service Number: | 1112 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 July 1916, 5 years citizen forces |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Mobile Veterinary Section |
| Born: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 15 August 1879 |
| Home Town: | Stockton, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 25 December 1953, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-182. 02. |
| Memorials: | Stockton Soldiers Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1112, 1st Veterinary Section, 5 years citizen forces | |
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| 3 Sep 1917: | Involvement Private, 1112, 1st Veterinary Section, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 3 Sep 1917: | Embarked Private, 1112, 1st Veterinary Section, HMAT Kyarra, Sydney | |
| 22 Mar 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1112, 7th Mobile Veterinary Section , 8th Australian Mobile Veterinary Section |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
70 years ago today, on the Tuesday morning of the 29th December 1953, Private Albert Ernest Chant, referred to as Sonner, 8th Australian Mobile Veterinary Section, Army Veterinary Corps (Reg No-1112), labourer from Hunter Street, Stockton, New South Wales and 10 Power Street, Islington, N.S.W., father of one (Norman Phelp, born 14.1.1907, served 2nd A.I.F., 2nd/20th Battalion, died 24.7.1949, age 42, officially commemorated with Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance and small Plaque at gravesite, https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html...), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 73. ANGLICAN 3-182. 02.
Born at Mayfield, New South Wales on the 15th August 1879 to George and Annie (Anna) Victoria Chant; husband of Alice Chant nee Peters (married 1898, Stockton, N.S.W., died 11.12.1935, Stockton, N.S.W., age 58), Sonner enlisted on the 25th July 1916 with the 1st Veterinary Section, May 1917 Reinforcements at Broadmeadow, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 26.11.1917 (pyrexia or fever, influenza), 8.5.1918 (pain in back), 11.10.1918 (malaria).
Discharged from hospital for 14 days leave, 4.11.1918 to 17.11.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 26.12.1918.
Sonner arrived home invalided on the 10th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (malaria) on the 22nd March 1919.
Mr. Chant’s name has been inscribed on the Stockton Soldiers' Memorial. Name not inscribed on the Stockton St. Paul's Anglican Church Honour Roll.
I have placed poppies at Sonner’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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