Alfred Hobart STURDEE CMG VD MID***

STURDEE, Alfred Hobart

    Service Number: Officer
    Enlisted: Not yet discovered
    Last Rank: Colonel
    Last Unit: 2nd Field Ambulance
    Born: Southsea, Hampshire, England, 6 May 1863
    Home Town: Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
    Schooling: Kings College, London Hospital, U.K.
    Occupation: Medical Practitioner
    Died: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 June 1939, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Cheltenham (Pioneer) Cemetery, Victoria
    Church Of England, Row 111, Grave 11.
    Memorials: Black Rock St. Agnes Anglican Church Roll of Honour WW1
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    Boer War Service

    1 Oct 1899: Involvement Captain
    1 May 1900: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Embarked from Melbourne on the SS Victorian. Then Disembarked at Beira in East Africa on 23 May 1900 to entrain to Rhodesia.
    22 Apr 1901: Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Rode half a mile under Boer fire with CPL Willing [158] to reach wounded men near a Middlewater donga.
    26 Jun 1901: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, R.T.A. from East London. SS Orient. Arrived back in Melbourne on 12 July 1901.
    9 Jul 1901: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette.
    12 Jul 1901: Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Captain, 4th Victorian Imperial Bushman, Returned to South Africa to serve as a Burger Camp Medical Officer until end of the war.
    29 Jul 1902: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette.

    World War 1 Service

    19 Oct 1914: Involvement Officer, 2nd Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: ''
    19 Oct 1914: Embarked 2nd Field Ambulance, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne
    30 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Landed at Gallipoli after first serving offshore on a hospital ship.
    22 Aug 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Colonel, 2nd Field Ambulance, Medevac'd from Gallipoli to London to treat influenza contracted in his Anzac field hospital.
    22 Jan 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Colonel
    1 Feb 1916: Honoured Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, AIF - Medical Corps - Operations in the field.
    11 Jul 1916: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette, 4th Supplement, No 29644.
    2 Jan 1917: Honoured Mention in Dispatches, London Gazette, 2nd Supplement, No. 29890.
    13 Feb 1917: Involvement AIF WW1, Colonel, Officer

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