Alfred James LAWRENCE

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LAWRENCE, Alfred James

Service Number:	946
Enlisted:	27 April 1916, 4 years AMC 4th Regiment
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	Stockton, New South Wales, Australia, 8 March 1894
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 17 January 1971, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 3-99. 114.
Memorials:

27 Apr 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 946, 35th Infantry Battalion, 4 years AMC 4th Regiment
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 946, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 946, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
31 May 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 946, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd MD

Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.

52 years ago today, on the 19th January 1971, Private Alfred James Lawrence, 3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion (Reg No-946), storeman from 27 Charles Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales and 31 Howe Street, Lambton, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 76. CATHOLIC 3-99. 114.

Born at Stockton, New South Wales on the 8th March 1894 to James Rodger and Ada Rhoda Lawrence of 136 Bull Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Alfred enlisted on the 27th April 1916 with the 35th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 5.8.1917 (acute hernia), 18.11.1917 (hernia, severe), 21.10.1918 (influenza).
Transferred to England 12.12.1918.

Alfred returned home on the 4th March 1919, being discharged medically unfit with a hernia on the 31st May 1919.

Alfred's name is listed as a WW1 veteran from the 3rd Australian Machine Gun Battalion on board the HMAT Transport 'Ulysses', A38, returning home.

There is a metal cross and plaque erected by the owner at Alfred’s gravesite, date unknown, and I have placed poppies in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia