ARMOUR, Alexander Gordon
| Service Number: | 7582 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia , 1901 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
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World War 1 Service
| 31 Oct 1917: | Involvement Private, 7582, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked Private, 7582, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Glenunga International High School
The 28th of July, 1914 was the start of WWI with it going on for 4 years in this war 17 million people died with 20 million being injured. It all started with a Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of Austria, in Sarajevo. One month later, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
Alexander Gordon Armour was born in 1901at Wallsend New South Wales. His job before he enlisted was a miner at the age of 16, although he said he was 19, while living with his closest family member who was his dad Mr J Armour. They both lived on Aberdare Street in the suburb of Weston, New South Wales. Without having any military service or even training he was enlisted to be a private in the army for WWI this was the lowest rank below lance corporal or private first class.
On the 19th of September in the year of 1917 Alexander was enlisted to join the army in the First World War which had already started. As his Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board of the HMAT A14 Euripides on 31st of October, 1917. Alexander didn’t get sick or wounded throughout war with not getting killed in action which was a great positive with it meaning he could then return home to tell the stories of war. He returned home to Australia on the 15th of September, 1918.
After the war when he had returned home he went back to being a miner as he was still quite young. With there being near to no information on Alexander Gordon Armour it did not say when or how he died.