ANDERSON, Albert Naples
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 24 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 8th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | near Ballarat, Victoria, 18 December 1885 |
| Home Town: | Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Geelong College |
| Occupation: | Accountant |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Egypt, 25 April 1917, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery Row D, Grave 49 Memorial Incription "HAVING FOUGHT TO THE END REMAINED VICTOR ON THE FIELD EPH. VI-13" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Creswick Scrub Hill Uniting Church Roll of Honor, Dean State School No 87 Honour Roll, Geelong Barwon Rowing Club Honor Roll, Geelong Barwon Rowing Club War Memorial, Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 8th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 12 Feb 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Embarked on HMAT 'A26' Armadale on 12th February 1915 | |
| 17 Mar 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Invalided to Australia with Dysentery, embarked on HMAT 'A11' Ascanius from Portland, England on 17th MArch 1916, disembarking Australia on 30th April 1916. | |
| 31 Jan 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Officer, Embarked HMAT 'A25' Anglo Egyptian from Melbourne on 31st January 1917, disembarking Suez, Egypt on 3rd March 1917. | |
| 12 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train | |
| 20 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 9 Apr 1917: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 19 Apr 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Officer, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Wounded in action, gun shot wound to abdomen. Treated at 3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance, then 1/2nd Southern Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance followed by the 53rd Welsh Casualty Clearing Station before being admitted to the 24th Stationary Hospital. Lieutenant Anderson succumbed to this wounds on 25th April 1917. |
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ANDERSON, Albert Naples (1885-1917)
Albert Naples was born at Dean, near Ballarat on 13 December, 1885, the son of William Anderson, MLA for Ballarat, and Helen Glover Anderson nee Naples.
He was enrolled at the Geelong College in 1901. At the time, his address was 'Lasswade', Austin Park near Geelong. He gained the following class prizes at College:
1901, 2nd, Geography, Middle 4th Class.
1901, 1st, Arithmetic, Middle 4th Class.
1901, 1st, Algebra, Middle 4th Class.
After leaving College he worked for Messrs J C Brown & Company as an accountant until his enlistment in 1914 during World War I. He had been one of the founding members of the Presbyterian Young Men's Guild, as well as a member of the Barwon Rowing Club. Albert Naples Anderson is also named on the memorial plaque to those who served in the Anglo-South African War in the Senior School Dining Hall.
His brother, the noted sculptor William Wallace Anderson (1888-1975) who also educated at Geelong College.
‘He enlisted in the AIF on 4 November 1914, and embarked for Egypt with the 8th Light Horse (2nd Reinforcement Group) on HMAT A26 'Armadale' on 12 February 1915. He then took part in the Gallipoli Campaign where he was wounded at Lone Pine and invalided first to England, then to Australia. He re-embarked for Egypt on 31 January 1917 with the 8th Light Horse (24th Reinforcement Group) on 'HMAT A25 Anglo Egyptian', and was wounded on 19 April at Second Gaza, when nine of his comrades from the 8th Light Horse fell, along with thirty-nine others from the 3rd and 4th Light Horse Brigades and forty-six from the Imperial Camel Corps battalions. Anderson died as a result of these wounds on 25 April 1917, the second anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing. ‘
Source : The Geelong College - http://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au:8080/wiki/ANDERSON-Albert-Naples-1885-1917.ashx?HL=anderson
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