Albert (Bert) AITKEN

Albert (Bert) AITKEN Update Details

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Service Number:	563
Enlisted:	11 January 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	25th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Stawell, Victoria, Australia, 1881
Home Town:	Hamilton, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Station Hand
Died:	Died of Wounds, At sea on board HMHS Dunluce Castle off Gallipoli, 13 December 1915
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing

11 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 563, 25th Infantry Battalion
11 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 563, 25th Infantry Battalion, Longreach, Qld
29 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 563, 25th Infantry Battalion, Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A60 Aeneas
13 Dec 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 25th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
13 Dec 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 563, 25th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Serious GSW to left leg (amputated). Evacuated to HMHS Dunluce Castle, where he died later the same day enroute to Lemnos. Buried at sea.

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