ERICKSON, Albert Victor
| Service Number: | 3046 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1892 |
| Home Town: | Drummoyne, Canada Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bookkeeper |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Pozieres, France, 6 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France Plot XXIX, Row O, Grave No. 16 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3046, 3rd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3046, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3046, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
From Drummoyne in Sydney, four Erickson brothers, Albert Victor, Roy Robert, Bertie Theodore and George Peter all enlisted to serve. They all attended Drummoyne Public School and were members of the Drummoyne Amateur Swimming Club.
Albert Victor Erickson was apparently a champion swimmer and Australian Rules footballer before he enlisted. His brother Roy Robert Erickson was killed by shell fire at Pozieres on the 5 August 1916, age 19. George was also badly wounded at Pozieres and sent home to Australia.
Albert has over 30 pages in his Red Cross file, the most accurate seem to agree he was nicknamed Snowy, as he was fair and tall. He was buried in a trench by a heavy shell at Pozieres and was either stretchered back or walked back with with crush wounds to a dressing station where he later died and was buried in a battlefield cemetery near Sausage Valley.
His remains were found in 1929 and relocated to the Serre Road No.2 Cemetery. He was identified by several items engraved with his initials and regimental number.
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