HOVE, Douglas Alfred
| Service Number: | 4320 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 July 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 17 December 1883 |
| Home Town: | Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tanner |
| Died: | Panania, New South Wales, Australia, 3 March 1966, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Minmi Cemetery, New South Wales Left Hand Side, Section 10, Plot 040 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Jul 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4320, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4320, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Kyarra embarkation_ship_number: A55 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4320, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Kyarra, Brisbane | |
| 30 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4320, 31st Infantry Battalion, 1st MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Minmi Cemetery, N.S.W.
On the 5th March 1966, Private Douglas Alfred Hove, 31st Battalion (Reg No-4320), tanner from Allen Street, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland and Kingaroy, QLD (1931), was laid to rest at Minmi Cemetery, age 82. Mr. Hove had died at Panania, N.S.W. on the 3rd March 1966.
Born at Brisbane, Queensland on the 17th December 1883 as Hovey to William Frederick, died 9.3.1930, Brisbane, Queensland, age 75, father of 10?, buried at Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, from Ferry Street, West End, Brisbane, QLD, and Hill End, Brisbane, QLD, and Jane Louisa Hove nee Douglas, died 21.5.1903, Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, age 46, sleeping at Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Queensland, from Ferry Street, West End, Brisbane, QLD; husband of Mary Ellen Hove nee?, married?, died?, also Lily May Hove nee Ellis, married?, died 14.2.1976, Sydney, N.S.W., age 85, sleeping with Doug, Left Hand Side, Section 10, Plot 040, Doug enlisted on the 22nd July 1916, age 32 years 7 months, at Brisbane, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland on board HMAT A55 Kyarra on the 17th November 1916.
Disembarked Plymouth, England 30.1.1917.
Proceeded O/Seas to France from Folkestone, England 25.4.1917.
Admitted to hospital 29.10.1917 (influenza), 26.6.1918 (influenza).
Granted leave to England from 5.9.1918 to 23.9.1918.
Commenced return to Australia 5.7.1919.
Doug arrived home on the 20th August 1919, being discharged on the 30th September 1919.
Name probably inscribed on a Brisbane War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Doug’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country. Left Hand Side, Section 10, Plot 040.
Not officially commemorated.
Many thanks to Jeanette Park and Ros Cheetham for the notification.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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