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CRIDDLE, Alfred Roy
| Service Number: | 4241 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 January 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies |
| Born: | Wallaroo, South Australia, February 1896 |
| Home Town: | Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Mount Gambier High School |
| Occupation: | Operator - Railways |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Murray Bridge, Murraylands, South Australia, 27 February 1969 |
| Cemetery: |
Murray Bridge (Bremer Road) Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Gladstone Public School WW1 Roll of Honor, Gladstone Town and District WW1 Honour Roll, Mount Gambier High School Great War Roll of Honor, Mount Gambier Knight & Cleve Pictorial Honour Rolls |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4241, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Nov 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4241, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Sep 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies | |
| 18 May 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Australian Corps Headquarters Signal Company, Detached for Duty | |
| 5 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 4241, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, "The Last Hundred Days", 5th Division Signal Company | |
| 21 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 4241, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, Disch Date per svc record at odds with RSL card |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Graeme Roulstone
4241 Alfred Roy CRIDDLE was born at Wallaroo, South Australia, on 7 February 1896. He was enrolled at Mount Gambier High School on 11 October 1910 by his father, Samuel Richard Criddle, gaol keeper, of Wehl Street, Mount Gambier. He left school on 15 December 1911.
He enlisted in Adelaide on 6 January 1916 (19, South Australian Railways operator, single, Church of England) naming his mother, Mrs Augusta Criddle of Gladstone, South Australia, as his next of kin. He embarked from Adelaide on the ‘Afric’ on 7 November 1916, disembarked at Plymouth in England on 9 January 1917, and was first attached to the 8th Training Battalion, before being transferred to the Signals and Engineers Depot on 22 September 1917 and sent to France on 14 May 1918. Initially attached to the 32nd Battalion on 21 May 1918, he was marched out to the Australian Corps Depot on 11 June 1918, hospitalised with scabies from 20 to 24 June 1918, and finally transferred to 5th Division Signals Company on 5 July 1918. He attended the Australian Corps Central School from 6 January 1919, before leaving England for return to Australia on 23 July 1919 on the ‘Main’, disembarking on 5 October 1919, and was discharged on 21 November.
Published in Ours: the origins and early years of Mount Gambier High School and Old Scholars who served in the Great European War by Graeme Roulstone
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