WORTHINGTON, Albert Henry
| Service Number: | 469 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 25 November 1878 |
| Home Town: | New Farm, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 21 April 1936, aged 57 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
North Rockhampton Cemetery, Qld Plot: ROMAN CATHOLIC Sec 7 Row 8 Grave No 61 |
| Memorials: | Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 469, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen | |
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| 6 Mar 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 469, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901. | |
| 5 May 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 469, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Full name Albert Henry Arthur Beaumont Worthington.
When Albert Henry Worthington enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB and his details were published in The Queenslander, 16 Mar 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as his mother M. E. Worthington, Heal Street, New Farm.
Albert Henry Arthur Beaumont Worthington was born on 25 Nov 1878 at Brisbane, a son to John Henry Worthington and Mary Elizabeth Worthington (nee Hardy). He married Mary Ellen Flanagan on 8 Jun 1904 in Queensland and they had 3 children.
When he passed in 1936 an obituray was published in The Evening News (Rockhampton) on 7 May 1936. It noted that he was born in Brisbane and educated at Brisbane Grammar School after which he took up work as a clerk in the A.S.U.N. Shipping Office in Brisbane. In his early twenties (probably after returning from the war) he relocated to Rockhampton to take up a position in the C.Q.M.E. office at Lakes Creek where he remained up until 3 weeks prior to his passing.
(source- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 503; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB, Bk 3 p. 134; Obituary- The Evening News, 7 May 1936).
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