WAILES, Albert Joseph
| Service Number: | 1263 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 January 1916, West Maitland, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 34th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 6 April 1886 |
| Home Town: | Abermain, Cessnock, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner (Abermain Colliery) |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium |
| Memorials: | Abermain War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cessnock Abermain Comforts Fund Pictorial Honour Roll, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1263, West Maitland, New South Wales | |
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| 2 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1263, 34th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 2 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1263, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney | |
| 12 Oct 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1263, 34th Infantry Battalion, 1st Passchendaele |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Janine Thomson
In Memory Of Albert Joseph Wailes 1886-1917
Albert Joseph Wailes was born in Hamilton NSW on the 6th April,1886.The sixth child of British immigrants, Ralph and Sarah Wailes. Albert was raised in a working class Methodist family and grew up in Adamstown NSW. He attended Adamstown primary School. In 1912, aged 26, Albert married Sarah Hamilton and lived in Abermain, where he worked as a miner at the Abermain Colliery.
By 1916 they had 2 children Joyce and Albert Jnr.He had already served 3 years with the 14th infantry Abermain and on the 10th January 1916 enlisted in the AIF at West Maitland. In March 1916,he joined the newly formed "Maitlands Own" 34th battalion and was appointed to D company. He travelled to England for training then in November,1916 embarked for France to fight on the Western front.
Albert was dearly loved by his older sister Isabella who kept a photo of him in unifrom by her bedside .She recalls waking suddenly during the night to a loud noise and looked over to find the glass in the photo cracked. Instantly she knew something terrible had happened to Albert. Weeks later her worst fears were confirmed. Albert was killed in action at Passchendaele on the 12th October, 1917. His body was never recovered.
Alberts name can be found on the Role of Honour at the Abermain Cenotaph, the Australian War Memorial and Menin Gate, Belgium.
LOVED in LIFE
HONOURED in DEATH
CHERISHED in MEMORY
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 12th October 1917, Private Albert Joseph Wailes, referred to as Tim, 34th Battalion (Reg No-1263), miner (Abermain Colliery), from Government Road, Abermain, New South Wales, father of two (Joyce Edna, born 1914, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W., and Albert Joseph, born 21.2.1916, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W.), was Killed in Action during the 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 31. Cause of death unknown.
No Roll of Honour circular submitted.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Broadmeadow, New South Wales on the 6th April 1886 to John Ralph (died 19.8.1924, Waratah, N.S.W., age 76), from Narara Road, Hamilton West, N.S.W. and 57 Narara Road, Adamstown, N.S.W., and Sarah Ann Wailes nee Temperley (died 7.6.1910, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 60) from Narara Road, Hamilton West, N.S.W.,; husband of Sarah Wailes nee Hamilton (married 1912, West Maitland, N.S.W., died 12.11.1951, Sydney Hospital, N.S.W., age 57, 34 years a widow), from Main Road, Abermain, New South Wales and Caledonia Street, South Cessnock, N.S.W. and 127 Foveaux Street, Sydney, N.S.W., Tim enlisted on the 10th January 1916 at West Maitland, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A20 Hororata on the 2nd May 1916.
Admitted 11th Australian Field Ambulance 30.1.1917 (tonsillitis).
Admitted to hospital 30.5.1917 (lumbago), 9.6.1917 (old injury right hip).
Mr. Wailes name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium.
Place of Association – Abermain, New South Wales, Australia.
Tim’s name has also been inscribed on the Abermain War Memorial and the Abermain Comforts Fund Pictorial Honour Roll.
Unfortunately, there is no headstone at the Wailes gravesite, therefore no memorial inscription to tell us of the loss of their son during The Great War, so September 2017 I erected a Memorial cross adorned with poppies in remembrance of Tim’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 7 SE. 19.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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