SHOVE, Alfred
| Service Number: | QX1947 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 June 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Newport, England, 22 March 1912 |
| Home Town: | Mutarnee, Ingham, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Natural causes, Melbourne, Victoria, 13 September 1972, aged 60 years |
| Cemetery: |
Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Private, QX1947, Townsville, Queensland | |
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| 24 Jun 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX1947, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 25 Jun 1940: | Involvement Private, QX1947 | |
| 10 Oct 1945: | Discharged Private, QX1947, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion | |
| 10 Oct 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX1947, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Peter Sunners
Alfred Shove was born in Newport, England in 1912 and migrated to Australia under the Big Brother scheme when he was about sixteen years old. This scheme was set up in the period between Federation and World War 2 to sponsor juvenile male migrants, 15-18 years of age mainly to work on farms.
His parents were Walter and Edith Shove. He had an older brother Walter and a sister Grace.
While in Australia he didn't keep in contact much with his family in the U.K. but he did write to his mother on a regular basis. After his mother died he continued to write to his sister.
Once his time at the farm, under the Big Brother scheme, was completed Alfred moved to Queensland from Geelong in Victoria. In June1940 he enlisted in the Army in Townsville. He served in Egypt, Borneo and New Guinea until the war was over when he returned to Queensland. He was discharged on 10 October 1945.
For some years he had been corresponding with Marguerite Wilson, who lived in Melbourne, and he eventually came down south to meet her. They were married in Melbourne in 1947 and had four children, all girls. He never returned to Queensland except for holidays.
Alfred died in 1972 at age 60. He was living at 75 Hodgson St., Rosanna, Victoria.
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