Service Number: 1320 Rank: Not known Enlistment Unit: 3rd Light Horse Transferred Unit: Not known or not applicable Date of Enlistment: 23 July 1915 Enlistment Age: 23 years 4 months Fate of person: Returned to Australia

Biographical Details

Alf came from a large family of fifteen children. He was only twenty when he married Grace Edwards in 1913 and they went on to have six children. Alf enlisted in the 3rd Light Horse in July 1915 but a series of ailments on his way to and in Egypt led to his return to Australia in June 1916. Alf worked on the Tasmanian Railways and later ran a bakery in Scottsdale before dying in 1947.

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