HOUGH, Alexander Sylvester
| Service Numbers: | 147 , 147 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 January 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tea Gardens, New South Wales, Australia, 8 October 1893 |
| Home Town: | Port Stephens, Port Stephens Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | Charlestown, New South Wales, Australia, 16 July 1970, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-97. 122. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 147 , 12th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW | |
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| 1 Mar 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Trooper, 12th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 147, 12th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 147, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 1st Light Horse Regiment | |
| 6 Sep 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, 1st Infantry Battalion, In England | |
| 25 Apr 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, 62nd Infantry Battalion, In England | |
| 18 Sep 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 62nd Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
| 10 Aug 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 147 , 1st Infantry Battalion, Gassed | |
| 3 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 147 , 1st Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to heart issues |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Jacob Hough and Bridget Hough of Tea Gardens, Port Stephens, NSW
Commenced return to Australia on 12 December 1918 aboard HT Somali disembarking on 10 February 1919
Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
During 1920c Alexander married Margreta E. Casey in Hamilton, NSW
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
53 years ago today, on the 18th July 1970, Sergeant Alexander Sylvester Hough, 1st Battalion (Reg No-147), stockman from "Killarney", Tea Gardens, New South Wales and 185B Bridge Road, Glebe, N.S.W. and 177 Denison Street, Hamilton, N.S.W. and 157 Pacific Highway, Charlestown, N.S.W. and 296 Pacific Highway, Charlestown, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76. CATHOLIC 3-97. 122.
Born at Tea Gardens, New South Wales on the 8th October 1893 to Jacob and Bridget Elizabeth Hough nee Burke; husband of Margarita Emelda Hough nee Casey (married 1920, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 6.8.1975, age 79, sleeping here), Alex enlisted on the 12th January 1915 with the 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A44 Vestalia on the 22nd June 1915.
Admitted to hospital 23.9.1915 (influenza, slight), 2.10.1915 (bronchitis), 26.10 1915 (rheumatic fever), 19.3.1917 (trench fever).
Wounded in action - 29.7.1918 (gassed).
Alex was invalided home on the 15th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (dilated heart) on the 3rd May 1919.
Mr. Hough’s name has been inscribed on the Tea Gardens Public School Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Alex’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Older brother Esmond Bourke (born 30.4.1891, Tea Gardens, New South Wales, grazier from Newcastle (Hamilton), New South Wales and 93 Dawson Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., enlisted 14.1.1916, Mining Corps, Reg No-1445, RTA 28.6.1919, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, died 21.12.1922, age 31, not officially commemorated) also resting at the cemetery. CATHOLIC 1-G Spec. 31.
Many thanks to Phil Young for the family history.
See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/
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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