Albert Alexander HOWARD

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HOWARD, Albert Alexander

Service Number:	3773
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	12th Light Trench Mortar Battery
Born:	Walhalla, Victoria, Australia , October 1888
Home Town:	Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling:	Walhalla Primary, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Laborer
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 5 April 1918
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

World War 1 Service

23 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3773, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
23 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 3773, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
5 Apr 1918:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 3773, 12th Light Trench Mortar Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3773 awm_unit: 12th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-04-05

Albert Alexander Howard

Albert Alexander Howard was born in Walhalla, Victoria, in October 1888, the third child of Andrew John and Mary (Shaw) Howard. He spent his early days in Walhalla where his father was the Manager of the Long Tunnel gold mine. He had seven siblings.

After his father died aged 27, Albert moved to Ballarat, where he joined the Australian Imperial Forces in July 1915. He was issued with Service Number 3773, and posted to the 12th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery. Albert was part of the 14th Infantry Battalion Reinforcement troops, sent to France on 23rd November, 1915. He embarked on the ship, "Ceramic" out of Melbourne, seeing service in France for just on two and a half years.

Tragically Albert was killed in action somewhere between Albert and Dervancourt, in no man's land, in the vicinity of Amiens, France, as the result of being shot in the head whilst going forward with a stretcher bearer, to bring out a wounded comrade. He was 30 years of age.

Albert had held the rank of Lance Corporal at the time of his death, and lies in an unknown grave in France, although he is listed on a memorial at the cemetery in Villers-Bretonneux. He had not married.

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