ALLEY, Albert Edward
| Service Number: | 166 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | London, England, United Kingdom, 4 October 1868 |
| Home Town: | Gympie, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hotelier |
| Died: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 6 December 1902, aged 34 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
South Rockhampton Cemetery Plot: Rc 40.5 2786 |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 166, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry | |
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| 1 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 166, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 448 notes 1st QMI embarked 1 Nov 1899 aboard Cornwall arriving Cape Town 13 Dec 1899. | |
| 26 Sep 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 166, 1st Queensland Mounted Infantry, National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier, notes invalided returned to Australia aboard Wilcannia arriving Brisbane 19 Sep 1902, discharged 26 Sep 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
When Albert Edward Alley enlisted in 1899 in the 1st QMI and his details were publshed with the rank and file in The Brisbane Courier, 18 Nov 1899, he was recorded as Private A. E. Alley, single, c/- Thomas Alley, grocer, River Road, Gympie. He was invalided from service due to enteric fever, firstly aboard the Monteigle to England arriving 30 Apr 1900, where he recuperated, before returning to Brisbane where he was discharged 26 Sep 1900.
Albert Edward Alley was born on 4 Oct 1868 at London, England, a son to Thomas Edward Alley and Phoebe Ann Alley (nee Chown). He emigrated with his parents to Queensland in 1874 where they settled in Gympie.
He was twice married. He first married Elizabeth Sarah Kempton in 1891 at Newtown, Sydney, and they had one child. In 1893 a warrant was issued in NSW for his arrest for wife desertion, Elizabeth obtaining a divorce in 1897. He then married Delia Barlow on 6 Jun 1901 at Rockhampton, where he was the publican at The Queensland Hotel, and they had one child in 1902, a few months before he passed as a result of pneumonia.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 452; National Archives Australia- Boer War Dossier; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 1st QMI, Bk 1 p. 3).