WARNER, Albert Ernest
| Service Number: | 2321 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, March 1878 |
| Home Town: | Coburg, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Woodworking machinist |
| Died: | KIA - shellfire, Pozieres, France, 5 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2321, 22nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 27 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2321, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2321, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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From How We Served
The private commemoration for; - 2321 Private Albert Ernest Warner was a widower of Coburg, Victoria, who prior to his enlistment for War Service on the 21st of July 1915 had been employed as a wood machinist.
Albert was taken on strength with reinforcements for the 22nd Battalion, and was embarked for Egypt and further training on the 27th of September.
Following his safe arrival Albert officially joined his Battalion, after it had been returned to Egypt from the failed Gallipoli campaign, on the 8th of January 1916 where they were encamped at Tel-El-Kabir.
By the 19th of March, Albert with his Battalion were embarked for France, where they landed at Marseilles, and were disembarked on the 26th of March.
It would not take long for the 22nd Battalion to be sent to the trenches, where they were committed to the capture of Pozieres. It was during this battle that Albert would lose his life on the 5th of August 1916 when his Battalion stormed the German positions along Pozieres Ridge.
It was here that Albert was observed as having been killed outright due to enemy shell fire, and with no time to formally bury his remains, he was instead left on the parapet of a captured German trench with the hope that an official burial party could remove him to a safe place of burial. Private Albert Warner had been aged 38 at the time of his death.
Albert’s body was not able to be located following his being Killed in Action, and instead he would be officially commemorated at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial where those Australians who have no named grave in Northern France are formally listed.
Back home in Australia, Albert’s family would have his name and supreme sacrifice privately commemorated at the gravesite of his late wife Emily, who is interred within Fawkner General Cemetery, Victoria.
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