Herbert Wright ALDRED

ALDRED, Herbert Wright

Service Number: 238
Enlisted: 17 September 1914, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born: Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, 1 December 1890
Home Town: Nanga Brook, Waroona, Western Australia
Schooling: Corbridge on Tyne School, Northumberland, England
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, nr Quinn's Post,Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 10 May 1915, aged 24 years
Cemetery: Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC
No known grave. Panel 51
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Jarrahdale Roll Of Honor WW1, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Yarloop War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

17 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 238, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
22 Dec 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 238, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 238, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
Date unknown: Involvement 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières

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Biography

Next of kin W Alfred G Aldred, Howdendene, Corbridge on Tyne, England

Admitted to 4th Field Ambulance, 10 May 1915 (influenza).

Reported missing, 10 May 1915.

Court of Enquiry, held at Serapeum, 6-8-28 April 1916, concluded: 'Killed in Action, 10 May 1915'.

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Biography contributed

Herbert Wright ALDRED was born in Cirendester, Gloucestershire, UK

His parents were Alfred James ALDRED & Janet Elizabeth ROLPH who married in England in 1884 (registered in Cuckfield)