Alfred Owen GURNEY

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GURNEY, Alfred Owen

Service Number:	3847
Enlisted:	24 September 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	18th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Boorowa, Boorowa, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 25 February 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boorowa War Memorial, Crookwell War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

World War 1 Service

24 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3847, 18th Infantry Battalion
20 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 3847, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: ''
20 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 3847, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Runic, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

His older brother, 2409 Pte. Herbert Gurney 56th Battalion AIF, was killed in action in Belgium on the 26 September 1917, aged 24 and a younger brother, 3053 Pte. Theodore Gurney, 33rd Battalion AIF, died of disease at almost the war’s end on 18 October 1918, aged 21.

They were the sons of William and Louisa Gurney (nee Hudson), of Rosewood, Reid's Flat, New South Wales.

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