Lancelot Reginald ALDERSON

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ALDERSON, Lancelot Reginald

Service Number:	1119
Enlisted:	16 September 1914, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Strathalbyn, South Australia, 3 November 1895
Home Town:	Solomontown, Port Pirie, South Australia
Schooling:	Solomontown Model School
Occupation:	Cabinetmaker
Died:	Killed in Action, Bloody Angle, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Port Pirie Oval WW1 Memorial Gates

World War 1 Service

16 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1119, Adelaide, South Australia
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1119, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlistment/Embarkation WW1
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1119, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
25 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1119, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli
2 May 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1119, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William Henry and Annie Alderson, of 29, Leah St., Forestville, South Australia. Native of Strathbly

Memorialised at West Terrace General Cemetery, ref: Sturt, Path 5s Site 33

THE LATE SERGEANT L. R. ALDERSON.
Reported missing twelve months ago, after leading a bayonet charge on Gallipoli, it is now announced that Sergeant Lancelot R. Alderson was killed in action on May 2, 1915. The deceased was born at Strathalbyn, but went to Port Pirie with his parents when quite young and enlisted from that town. By trade he was a cabinet-maker, and his first knowledge of soldiering was obtained in the Citizen Forces, in which he was a sergeant. He went to the front with the second contingent.

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