Alfred Stanley HUNT

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HUNT, Alfred Stanley

Service Number:	2875
Enlisted:	27 September 1915
Last Rank:	Second Lieutenant
Last Unit:	17th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Dandaloo, New South Wales, Australia, 13 June 1894
Home Town:	Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling:	Newington College, Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Grazier
Died:	Aircraft accident, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England, 20 August 1917, aged 23 years
Cemetery:	All Saints Churchyard, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, England
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World War 1 Service

27 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2875, 17th Infantry Battalion
2 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 2875, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
2 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 2875, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
16 Mar 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2875, 17th Infantry Battalion, Discharged to Royal Flying Corps with rank of 2nd Lieutenant
17 Mar 1917:	Enlisted British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, in Royal Flying Corps.
20 Aug 1917:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Second Lieutenant, killed in an accident during formation flying training near Yatesbury, Wiltshire.

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

Lt. Alfred Stanley Hunt was killed on the 20 August 1917. Stanley served in WW1 in the AIF in Egypt and France and saw action at Pozieres as a Corporal in the 17th Battalion. After training at Exetor College, Oxford, he qualified as a pilot in the RFC. He had just been given his 'wings' when killed in a flying accident involving another plane during formation flying. The incident occurred at Yatesbury in Wiltshire, England.

Alfred had joined up with his brother, and they served together in the 17th Battalion AIF in France, and perhaps it was the death of his younger brother Private 2672 George B.F. Hunt, killed in action Pozieres, 2nd August 1916, that prompted him to leave the AIF just after he had been promoted Corporal and join the RFC. Both the boys were born in Nevertire near Nyngan in NSW, and their father was MLC for the district for many years.

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