BISHOP, Alan Stephen
| Service Number: | 1921 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 60th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Middle Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 23 July 1895 |
| Home Town: | Brighton, Bayside, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Brighton Grammar School; Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Just left School |
| Died: | Died of wounds sustained in France -, 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, England., United Kingdom, 9 December 1916, aged 21 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sheffield (Burngreave) Cemetery, England Plot number JJ. “C” 3655 and has a Private Headstone. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 8th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1921, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Apr 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1921, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne | |
| 9 Dec 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1921, 60th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1921 awm_unit: 60th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1916-12-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
60th Bn.Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
He was 21 and the son of John and Jemima Gibson Bishop, of 27 Carpenter Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria.
Deaths Dec 1916 Bishop Alan S 21 Ecclesall B 9c 528
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 14 January 1915 and embarked from Melbourne for active service abroad on 17 April 1915 per HMAT "Hororata".
Biography contributed by Cathy Sedgwick
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick (OAM) – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK/Scotland/Ireland”
Alan Stephen Bishop was born at Brighton, Victoria on 23rd July, 1895 to parents John & Jemima Gibson Bishop.
He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 14th January, 1915 as a 19 year old from 27 Carpenter Street, Middle Brighton, Victoria who had left school.
On 14th January, 1915 Alan Stephen Bishop was posted to Depot for recruit training. He was transferred to 5th Reinforcements of 8th Battalion on 1st March, 1915. Private Bishop was promoted to Acting Corporal - no date recorded.
Acting Corporal Alan Stephen Bishop, Service number 1921, embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on HMAT Hororata (A20) on 17th April, 1915 with the 8th Infantry Battalion, 5th Reinforcements.
He joined 8th Battalion at “Anzac” on 17th July, 1915. He disembarked from Empress of Britain at Alexandria on 7th January, 1916 (after evacuation of Gallipoli).
On 24th February, 1916 Corporal Bishop was transferred to 60th Battalion from 8th Battalion & was taken on strength of 60th Battalion at Serapeum.
Corporal Bishop embarked from Alexandria on Kinfauns Castle on 18th June, 1916 to join B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) & disembarked at Marseilles, France on 29th June, 1916.
He was promoted to Sergeant on 25th March, 1916.
Sergeant Alan Stephen Bishop was reported wounded in action in France on 19th July, 1916. He was admitted to 13th Stationary Hospital on 20th July, 1916 with shrapnel wounds to face, hand & knee (multiple). Private Bishop embarked for England on Hospital Ship Cambria on 26th July, 1916 from Boulogne, France.
According to The Scotch Collegian, 1917 – Sergeant Bishop “was initially wounded in the knee while calling his men forward. A second wound reportedly brought him down, after which he lay in No Man’s Land, unable to move until dusk because of enemy fire. A few minutes before it would have been safe to move, a shell landed some 10 metres from him, throwing him into the air and inflicting another 10 wounds, ‘including a compound fracture of the arm and the loss of an eye.’ He still managed to crawl towards the trenches, covering the necessary 50 metres in two hours.”
Sergeant Alan Stephen Bishop died at 3.15 pm on 9th December, 1916 at 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, England from wounds received in action in France - G.S.W. (gunshot wounds) to head, arm & leg & general Septicaemia. A telegram to Administrative Headquarters from the Hospital at Sheffield advised that relatives were present at the time of death.
He was buried in Burngreave Cemetery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England – Plot number JJ. “C” 3655 and has a Private Headstone.
(The above is a summary of my research. The full research can be found by following the link below)
https://ww1austburialsuk.weebly.com/burngreave.html
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