JUDD, Albert Selwyn
| Service Number: | 477 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 36th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, 10 December 1893 |
| Home Town: | Hurlstone Park, Canterbury, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Paddington Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway Workshop Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Baulkham Hills William Thompson Masonic School War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Sydney United Grand Lodge Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 13 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 477, 36th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
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| 13 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 477, 36th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Albert Selwyn JUDD (Service Number 477) was born in Goulburn on 10th December 1893 and educated at the Paddington Superior Public School. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a shop boy at the Eveleigh workshops in October 1910 and was promoted to labourer in December 1914. He was a member of the Metropolitan Railway Rifle Club.
In January 1916 he enlisted in the AIF at Liverpool.
He embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT ‘Beltana’ in May 1916. He landed in England in July and joined the 36th Battalion. He was sent with them to France in November 1916.
he was killed in action at Messines, Belgium, on 7th June 1917. He was buried ‘vicinity of Messines’, but after the war the grave could not be located. He is remembered with honour on the Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.