GREIG, Alexander Fiddes
| Service Number: | 3953 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 January 1917, Enlisted with Gordon Highlanders, British Army on 7th November, 1913 at Aberdeen, Scotland. Private Alexander Greig was discharged on 26th May, 1915 (unfit for military service) |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Pioneer Battalion |
| Born: | Brewarrina, New South Wales, Australia, 3 May 1895 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Postal Assistant |
| Died: | Tubercule on the lung, Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 22 July 1917, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fovant (St. George) Churchyard, Wiltshire - South West, England Plot II, Row B, Grave 6, Fovant (St George) Churchyard, Fovant, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jan 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3953, 1st Pioneer Battalion, Enlisted with Gordon Highlanders, British Army on 7th November, 1913 at Aberdeen, Scotland. Private Alexander Greig was discharged on 26th May, 1915 (unfit for military service) | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3953, 1st Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3953, 1st Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
1st Australian Pioneers
He was 22 and the son of Peter Cormack Greig and Ada Methven Greig.
Educated-Woodhead School, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. He is remembered on the school war memorial there.
Woodhead of Fyvie, often simply called "Woodhead", is an inland hamlet in Formartine, Aberdeenshire, Scotland that lies to the east of Fyvie near the upper River Ythan.
Enlisted Collarenebri.
NoK: sister Miss Marjorie Francis Greig, Beethoven, Lowena, NSW.
The War Book of Turriff [Aberdeenshire] & 12 Miles Round : Page 243 .
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 22nd July......Private Alexander Fiddes Greig was born in 1895 at Brewarrina, NSW.
Ada Methven Greig, mother of Alexander Greig, died on 28th May, 1906 at Tangoa, New Hebrides. Peter Cormack Greig, father of Alexander Greig, was murdered by natives at the island of Santo, New Hebrides, on 7th October, 1908. His sisters Elizabeth Marion Greig & Ada Joyce Greig were also murdered on 7th October, 1908. Alexander Greig, aged 14, "succeeded in escaping to a place of safety" according to a newspaper report.
Alexander Fiddis Greig, aged 18 years, a Gardener from Sydney, Australia, enlisted with Gordon Highlanders, British Army on 7th November, 1913 at Aberdeen, Scotland. He was admitted to Aberdeen Hospital on 24th January, 1914 with Bronchitis then on 21st February, 1914 developed Pneumonia. He was discharged from Hospital on 23rd March, 1914. Private Greig was hospitalised with a wound to his thumb on 19th July, 1914. He was later transferred to France but hospitalised on 16th November, 1914 & transferred back to England on 26th November, 1914.
Private Alexander Greig was discharged on 26th May, 1915 as he was “no longer physically fit for War Service under para 392 XVI Kings Regulations”. He had served for 1 year & 201 days.
Alexander Fiddes Greig enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force on 13th January, 1917 as a 21 year old Postal Assistant from Sydney, NSW. He was posted with 10th Reinforcements of 1st Pioneer Battalion & embarked from Sydney, NSW on 24th January, 1917. He was sent to Ship's Hospital from 21st to 24th March, 1917; disembarked in England on 27th March, 1917 & was posted to Pioneer Training Battalion in England on 27th March, 1917.
Private Alexander Greig was sent sick to Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire on 5th April, 1917. Sadly he died at 2.55 am on 22nd July, 1917 at Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire, England from Tubercle of Lung.
Private Alexander Greig was buried in St George’s Churchyard, Fovant, Wiltshire where 43 other WW1 Australian Soldiers are buried.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/a---g.html
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