Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

From How We Served
 
The final resting place for; - V358802 Private Albert Henry Mullord of London, England and Edithvale, Victoria had served in the trenches of Northern France and Flanders during the First World War with the King’s Royal Rifles Corps, and following the end of hostilities in November 1918 he received his official discharge from the British Army.

In the initial years of peace that followed, Albert married in 1919, and together as a young family they immigrated to Australia. In his civilian life, Albert would become a furniture dealer, and at the time of the outbreak of a Second World War, he was employed as a mill operator when he decided again to serve on War Service and joined the Australian Military Forces on the 15th of December 1942.

Accepted for duty within Victoria, Albert was posted to the Volunteer Defence Corps, and by the 16th of June 1943, he had been taken on strength with Headquarters Volunteer Defense Corps Victoria Lines of Communication.

On the 29th of April 1944, whilst on recreational leave, Albert was riding a bicycle when he was struck by a car at Carrum, Victoria, and subsequently died of the serious injuries he received to his head and chest caused in the accident. Albert was aged 54 at the time of his premature passing.

Following his accidental death whilst still in service with the Volunteer Defense Corps, Private Albert Mullord, a British veteran of the ‘Great War’ and who had chosen to serve in a Second World War in the defense of Australia, was formally laid to rest within Springvale War Cemetery, Victoria.