John Henry (Gunner) ALDHAM

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ALDHAM, John Henry

Service Number:	4627
Enlisted:	14 August 1914
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	54th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Fernvale, Queensland , Australia, 24 July 1891
Home Town:	Bluff Rock, Tenterfield Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Bolier maker for the NSW railways
Died:	Natural causes, Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia, 3 October 1977, aged 86 years
Cemetery:	Point Clare General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Sect. CE 9 Row 1 Plot 21
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

14 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
20 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 54th Infantry Battalion, shot in the elbow. While on his stretched in his trench he was bombed by the Germans and received a shrapnel wound to the leg
20 Jul 1916:	Imprisoned Captured Flair Baix Douai hospital; 28 December 1916 to Verden hospital; 5 February 1917 to Soltau POW camp; hospital for 4 months then invalid barracks; to Holland 13 Jan 1918 and arrived England 21 January 1918.
16 Dec 1916:	Involvement Private, 4627, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
16 Dec 1916:	Embarked Private, 4627, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney
12 May 1918:	Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4627, 54th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Warwick Aldham

Was born on a farm at Fernvale, Queensland Australia. He returned to there after WWI and received a wallet with some cash from the locals for his service. Moved to Tempe in Sydney then bankstown Sydney. Married Nenetta Ambrosoli and had a son Jack Aldham who served in WWII at the fall of Singapore and daughter Iris Joan.

He lived with his daughter in Dubbo NSW after his wife died and subsequently with his son in Balckheath New South Wales, Australia

Biography contributed by Warwick Aldham

His brother Harcourt Byron Ernest Aldham also served.

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