Alfred Stores
- Born: 2 Nov 1897, Tumbarumba, NSW Australia
- Marriage (1): Jemima Armstrong in 1922 in Randwick, Sydney, NSW Australia 692
- Died: 1954, Balmain, Sydney, NSW Australia at age 57 692
Noted events in his life were:
• note. 692 Ross Miller notes:
Alfred
Alfred was born in Tumbarumba 1897 to Edward and Catherine (Hayes St, Henty). He enlisted at Katowba on 3/2/1916 as Private Stores No. 20832, aged 19 years and 7 months. He was 5'5.5, 110lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes and light brown hair. Army records being uncommonly thorough, we also know he had a birth mark on the end of his penis and a scar on his right palm.
Being a telegraphist, he was transferred to signals and re-graded as sapper. He embarked A38 Ulysses in Sydney on 19/12/17 and arrived Suez of 16/1/18. He marched into Base Signals at Moascar (Egypt) on 23//3/18 before transferring to Kantra camp.
He served in Palestine with 1/4 Signals ANZAC On 7 September he was in the field hospital with influenza, then transferred to hospital in Port Said before rest camp. On 12 October he was taken back onto the strength of 1 Signals Troop at Port Said, the Moascar. Alfred was discharged on 4.7.1919 having travelled home of the HT Otari. His mother had exercised her option to request his discharge - both parents had consented to his enlistment, he being only 18 at the time. He was awarded the 1914/18 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Alfred's kit list was: 1 boots, 1 greatcoat, 2 dungarees suits, 1 felt hat with chin strap, 2 drawers, 1 C jacket, 2 shirts, 2 singlets, 3 socks, 1 tin ware set, 1cutlery set, l breeches, 1 jacket STs, 1 puttees, 1 braces and 2 towels.
He also enlisted for the Second World War, No 274652 but his record is not available from Archives.
Alfred married Jemima Armstrong at Randwick in 1922 and had two children: Alfred J, died 1926 Annandale; and a daughter K.M. who probably married R.S. Graham. Jemima was the daughter of Wiliam Armstrong (26/1/1852 Pambula - 11/2/1906 when swept of a rock while fishing on Leonard's Island, Pambula - his parents were immigrants from Glasgow); and Isabella Keith (27/4/1856 Nangutta - 22/7/1900 Pambula - her parents were immigrants from Dundee)
Alfred married Jemima Armstrong in 1922 in Randwick, Sydney, NSW Australia.692 (Jemima Armstrong was born on 8 Aug 1891 in Bombala, NSW Australia and died in 1969 in Sydney, NSW Australia 692.)
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