Albert George PEGRAM

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PEGRAM, Albert George

Service Number:	3204
Enlisted:	7 October 1916, Place of Enlistment, Goulburn, New South Wales.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	55th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, 1898
Home Town:	Bredbo, Cooma-Monaro, New South Wales
Schooling:	Public School, Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer .
Died:	Died of wounds, Belgium, 28 September 1917
Cemetery:	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXV-AA-10A, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bredbo District Roll of Honour WW1

World War 1 Service

7 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3204, 55th Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Goulburn, New South Wales.
11 Nov 1916:	Involvement Private, 3204, 55th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
11 Nov 1916:	Embarked Private, 3204, 55th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney

Private Albert Pegram.

Private Albert Pegram (3204), 55th Battalion AIF, taken at the Imperial Studios in Goulburn, New South Wales (Australia) between September and November 1916.

Albert George Pegram, a labourer of Bredbo who enlisted in 1916, trained at Goulburn and embarked with the 8th Reinforcements from Sydney on 'HMAT Suevic' on the 11th of November 1916.
He reached the Western Front in August that year.

He was mortally wounded in the stomach by a German sniper in his first action at Polygon Wood in September 1917.
He died on the 28th of September at the Casualty Clearance Station at Remy Siding, aged 19, and was buried at Lijssenhoek near Poperinge, Belgium.

In a strange twist of fate, Albert's personal effects were lost to the family for decades. Then within the space of several months in 2011, his Victory Medal was handed in and returned to the family and his personal effects turned up in a deceased's estate. Among the many letters, postcards, and sympathy cards was this portrait.
Posted by Aussiedigger, National Library of Australia.

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