Alfred BOARDMAN

BOARDMAN, Alfred

Service Number: 3238
Enlisted: 18 July 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 14th Infantry Battalion
Born: Portland, Victoria, 14 October 1864
Home Town: Williamstown (Vic), Hobsons Bay, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Blacksmith
Died: Natural Causes, Caufield, Victoria, 27 December 1935, aged 71 years
Cemetery: Williamstown (General) Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 1 Service

18 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3238, 14th Infantry Battalion
11 Oct 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3238, 14th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
23 Jul 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3238, 14th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières
28 Aug 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3238, 14th Infantry Battalion, Mouquet Farm, Admitted Bagthorpe Hospital UK 3 Oct 16
9 Aug 1917: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3238, 14th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Australia 4 May 1917

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Biography contributed by Ian Cusack

Alfred was born in Portland Victoria and as child with his family they moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia, here he was apprenticed to a blacksmith and later qualified and worked in the Mount Gambier area.

He bore 8 children and sadly his wife Ellen passed away soon after the birth of their 8th child.

After the passing of his wife the family moved to Melbourne, living in the Caufield / Williamstown areas.

Alfred was 50 years old at the time of enlistment but must have bent the truth as he enlisted on the 19th August 1914, stating his age was 44years and 7 months. At his enlistment he named his youngest son Silvester as his Next of Kin, he was aged 7 at the time, he later changed his Next of Kin to Ann Boardman

His second son Rockley also enlisted for service in WW1 on the 4th of Jan 1915, who was sadly killed in France on the 1st of Sept 1918.

Submitted by Ian Cusack (Vietnam Veteran 4721611), Alfred was my Grandfather John Frederick Boardman's (WW1 veteran 6393) uncle

 

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