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Alfred BROOKE

Regimental number1786
Place of birthWellington, New Zealand
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
Address128 Bay Street, Fremantle, Western Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation29
Next of kinFriend, Mrs Ada Hudson, 128 Bay Street, Fremantle, Western Australia
Enlistment date18 January 1915
Place of enlistmentPerth, Western Australia
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name16th Battalion, 4th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/33/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on 19 April 1915
Regimental number from Nominal Roll1781
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll16th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularEnlisted 18 January 1915 - 16th Bn, 4th Reinforcements. Taken on strength, 16th Bn, 4 June 1915. Wounded at Gallipoli, 27 August 1915.
FateDied as a result of accident 23 June 1916
Age at death30
Place of burialErquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension (Plot I, Row K, Grave No. 5), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
78
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated (marble tablet) in St John's Anglican Church, Fremantle, Western Australia. Inscription reads: 'To the glory of God. The Choir Vestry was erected A.D. 1922 in grateful memory of the men from this parish who gave their lives for God and King and Country in the Great War 1914-1919. "Their name liveth for evermore."'
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, Western Front

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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