BULOW, Alfred Gustave
| Service Number: | QX39424 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 March 1941, Grovely, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Staff Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | Armoured Car Training Regiment |
| Born: | Esk, Queensland, Australia, 30 June 1918 |
| Home Town: | Toogoolawah, Somerset, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Injuries (motor vehicle hit tree), Puckapunyal, Victoria, Australia, 22 November 1943, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Seymour General Cemetery, Victoria Crown Allot. 53. Sec. B. Plot F. Row A. Grave 9. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Toogoolawah War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 20 Mar 1941: | Enlisted Staff Sergeant, QX39424, Grovely, Queensland | |
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| 21 Mar 1941: | Involvement Staff Sergeant, QX39424 | |
| 6 Nov 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Staff Sergeant, QX39424 | |
| 22 Nov 1943: | Involvement Staff Sergeant, QX39424, Armoured Car Training Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Kerry Bulow
Alfred was the son of Albert Julius and Augusta Wilhelmine Bulow of Toogoolawah, Queensland.
He enlisted in the part time Militia on the 22nd February 1939, serving with "A" Squadron, 2/14th Light Horse Regiment, transfering to the full time Militia at Toogoolawah on the 22nd September 1941 and to Northern Command Recconnaisance Regiment at Beenleigh. He transferred to the Australian Imperial Force in Townsville on the 5th August 1942. Posted to the 1st Australian Armoured Corps training Regiment in New South Wales on the 15th February 1943, then to the 2nd Motor Transport Regiment at Singleton on the 24th February 1943.
Alfred's last posting was at Puckapunyal, Victoria with the Armoured Corps Training Regiment. On the 20th November 1943, he was admitted to the 86th Camp Hospital at Puckapunyal with concussion, shock, fractured skull and crushed chest, he died as a result of his injuries on the 22nd November 1943.
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