Albert William PARROTT

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PARROTT, Albert William

Service Number:	1474
Enlisted:	15 January 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 4 August 1883
Home Town:	Hamilton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 16 April 1919, aged 35 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-08. 40.
Memorials:	Sulphide Corporation Pty. Ltd. Cockle Creek Works Honour Board

World War 1 Service

15 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1474, 35th Infantry Battalion
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1474, 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, 1474, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
10 Jul 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1474, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, medically unfit

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

I served and suffered during The Great War, now resting with my brother at Sandgate Cemetery.

103 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 18th April 1919, Private Albert William Parrott, 35th Battalion (Band Member), labourer from "Armentieres", 53 Brunker Road, Hamilton West, (Newtown) New South Wales and John Street, Cardiff, N.S.W. and 7 Narara Road, Adamstown, N.S.W., father of four (Albert (Bert) Frederick William, Alma Bessie, Levina Ivy, Allan H), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 35, not 37. ANGLICAN 1-08. 40.

Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 4th August 1883 to William J and Harriet R Parrott; husband of Margaret Levina Parrott nee Dawson (married 1906, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1938, sleeping here), Albert enlisted January 1916 at Hamilton West, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 18.1.1917 (laryngitis), 27.1.1917 (scabies), 5.2.1917 (scabies and haemorrhoids).

Albert was invalided home September 1917, being discharged medically unfit (arteriosclerosis due to chronic nephritis) on the 23rd October 1917.

Mr. Parrott’s name has been inscribed on the Hamilton (Gregson Park) War Memorial (photos, unveiled on the 20th May 1922, 627 names originally inscribed, 634 names now inscribed, 98 Fallen), Hamilton Municipal District Roll of Honor, Sulphide Corporation Pty Ltd Cockle Creek Works Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.

I have placed poppies at the family gravesite in remembrance of Albert’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Service record states Died after Discharge.

Younger brother Carlton (1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Reg No-5597, born 1893, died 1975) also resting at the cemetery. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 8 NW. 57.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

Lest We Forget.

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