WEEKS, Alfred George
| Service Number: | WX4913 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Narrogin, Western Australia, 28 December 1919 |
| Home Town: | Glen Forrest, Mundaring, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Illness, Egypt, 28 July 1942, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
El Alamein War Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Mundaring War Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement Private, WX4913 | |
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| 23 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX4913, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion | |
| 6 Jan 1941: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX4913, 2nd/28th Infantry Battalion, ex Fremantle for Palestine | |
| 11 Jan 1942: | Imprisoned El Alamein, Reported as MiA 28 July 1942: ‘died cause not stated whilst PoW’ |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Alfred George Weeks (Service No:WX4913) enlisted in the Army on 23 July 1940 - one of four siblings who enlisted in WWII (eldest sibling Thomas also served with 2/28th Infantry Battalion and was a PoW; Arthur also served with 2/28th Infantry Battalion and was KiA in Brunei; and Harry served with 5 Australian Provost Coy). Private Weeks embarked from Fremantle for Palestine with 2/28th Infantry Battalion on 6 January 1941 and was reported as MiA on 11 July 1942. He was a PoW when he died of illness in Egypt, 'cause not stated' on 28 July 1942. Private Weeks is recognised as one of the Rats of Tobruk.
Born in 1919 at Narrogin WA, Alf was the second of five children (sons) of Thomas Weeks (b1883 in London, England) and Sarah Jane Wilson (b1884 in London, England). Thomas (a Copper Barrel maker in a Brewery) and Sarah married in 1912 in Surrey, England and by 1913 were living in Williams WA. Thomas - a Labourer - tried to enlist in the AIF in 1914 and was rejected as 'unfit for military service'. He and Sarah lived at Williams, Darkan, Narrogin and Glen Forrest in Mundaring where Thomas was a Labourer and Railway Repairer.
Alf was working as a Labourer at Glen Forrest in Mundaring WA when he enlisted in the Army in 1940.
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