Alfred Herbert BARRATT

BARRATT, Alfred Herbert

Service Number: 778
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
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World War 1 Service

29 Jan 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 778, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Original of D Company
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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Biography 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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