Albert Edward BUNTEN

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BUNTEN, Albert Edward

Service Number:	3358
Enlisted:	4 May 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia , 4 March 1900
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Frankston, Victoria, Australia, 7 February 1970, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
Memorials:	South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

4 May 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3358, 60th Infantry Battalion
16 Jul 1917:	Involvement Private, 3358, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Melbourne embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
16 Jul 1917:	Embarked Private, 3358, 60th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Melbourne, Sydney
15 Mar 1918:	Transferred Private, 14th Infantry Battalion, France
12 May 1918:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3358, 14th Infantry Battalion, per HT Port Napier
26 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3358, 14th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Albert Edward Bunten (Service No:3358) enlisted in the AIF in Melbounre on 4 May 1917 and embarked with 60th Infantry Battalion on HMAT Port Melbourne on 16 July 1917 from Sydney to Liverpool. Private Bunten was in France in 1918 when he was transferred to 14th Infantry Battalion and embarked in May 1918 per HT Port Napier for his RTA, where he was Discharged on 26 September 1919.

Born in 1900 in Melbourne Victoria, Albert was the eldest of five children of Robert Isaac Bunten (b1867 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Agnes Mary Ricketts (b1869 in Geelong, Victoria. Robert (a Blacksmith) and Agnes (who had a son) married in 1889 in Melbourne, Victoria where they settled and raised their family.

Albert was a Farm Hand in Melbourne prior to his enlistment in the AIF, and he worked as a Labourer in Melbourne following his Discharge. In 1921 he married Ivy Victoria Loveless (b1904 in Rutherglen, Victoria) and the couple settled in Melbourne where they raised their family. Albert served in the Militia (18 March 1931 - 5 September 1935 as a Private (Service No:295646) attached to 5th Battalion, and then in WWII as a Private (Service No:V80714) in the ACMF and as a Sapper (Service No:VX13945) with the AIF.

By 1949 Albert was a Mechanic living in Melbourne, Victoria - he and Ivy had separated. In 1951 Albert remarried Dorothy Harriet Ellen Foley (nee Green; b1899 in Melbourne, Victoria). Dorothy died in 1952 and Albert died in Frankston, Victoria in 1970.

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