Alexander James GALLAGHER

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GALLAGHER, Alexander James

Service Number:	2336
Enlisted:	1 September 1915, 3 mths 14th Infantry
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	30th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Islington, New South Wales, Australia, 28 April 1898
Home Town:	Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 4 April 1936, aged 37 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 2-32. 27.
Memorials:	Singleton Public School HR, Singleton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

1 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2336, 30th Infantry Battalion, 3 mths 14th Infantry
11 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 2336, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
11 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 2336, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney
30 Sep 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2336, 30th Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal, Gassed
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Private, 2336, 48th Infantry Battalion
19 Apr 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Resting peacefully but anonymously at Sandgate Cemetery.

85 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 5th April 1936 (the only funeral on this day). Private Alexander James Gallagher, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2336), labourer from Victoria Street, Singleton, New South Wales and 1 James Street, Hamilton, N.S.W., father of two (Bonnie and Ronald), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 37. CATHOLIC 2-32. 27.

Born at Islington, New South Wales on the 28th April 1898 to James Francis and Annie Gallagher of 48 Chatham Road, Broadmeadow, N.S.W.; husband of Ethel May Gallagher nee Hewitt (married 1923, Sydney, N.S.W., died 1975?), Alex enlisted September 1915 at West Maitland, N.S.W.

Wounded in action - 30.9.1918 (gassed).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80716939 - report of being gassed in France. Invalided to UK - 3.10.1918.

Alex returned home February 1919, being discharged on the 19th April 1919.

Mr Gallagher’s name has been inscribed on the Singleton Superior Public School Roll of Honour (1st unveiling on the 24th May 1915, 2nd unveiling on the 24th May 1917 ) and the Singleton & District War Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 29th November 1925, 566 names inscribed).

I located Alex resting in an unmarked grave, forgotten, so June 2017 I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.

I submitted an application to DVA January 2020 asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip, but unfortunately this was declined March 2020.

Death certificate states - acute encephalitis, cause unknown at present, brain being examined.

Alex will be remembered with a Plaque courtesy of the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project.
Lest We Forget.

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