BARRATT, Alfred Herbert
| Service Number: | 778 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 January 1915, Original of D Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gre Gre, Victoria, Australia, 13 February 1888 |
| Home Town: | St Arnaud, North Grampians, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Gre Gre Central School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 4 October 1917, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais - Hauts-de-France Plot VI, Row B, Grave 33A, Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Wimereux, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, St. Arnaud Traynors Lagoon & District Roll of Honor WW1, Traynors Lagoon War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 778, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Original of D Company | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 778, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 778, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Served at Gallipoli.
Wounded in action in Belgium 29 September 1917, Alf was admitted to the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance with severe bomb wounds, legs, left arm, and abdomen. He was transferred to 10th Casualty Clearing Station then to an Ambulance Train and finally to the 2nd Australian General Hospital, Wimereux, France an the 1 October 1917. The matron of the hospital wrote to his parents and informed them of how seriously ill he was and the surgeons were going to amputate his leg but his condition deterioated to the extent they could not proceed and he died of wounds on the 4 October 1917.
His younger brother was killed in action just over 12 months later, 2149 Private John Leslie Barratt 46th Battalion, died of wounds 22nd October 1918. Age 22.
Son of William and Mary Ann Barratt, from St Arnaud Victoria.
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