ALDER, Alexander
| Service Number: | 344 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Aberdeen, Scotland, 28 January 1894 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer (ship yard worker) |
| Died: | Cardiff, New South Wales, Australia , 21 July 1932, aged 38 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-119. 78. |
| Memorials: | Merewether Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 344, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 344, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Beltana embarkation_ship_number: A72 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 344, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Beltana, Sydney | |
| 18 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 344, 30th Infantry Battalion, 3rd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
91 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 22nd July 1932, Private Alexander Jamieson Alder, referred to as Sandy, 30th Battalion (Reg No-344), labourer (ship yard worker), from C/O Mr. & Mrs. J Gelletaly, Merewether Street, Merewether, New South Wales (and 30 Dent Street, Merewether, N.S.W.), and Lachlan Road, Cardiff, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 38. ANGLICAN 2-119. 78.
Born at 4.35 a.m. on the 28th January 1894 at 5 Jepps Lane, Aberdeen, Scotland to William (china and glass merchant) and Isabella (Isabel) Alder nee Adams of 15 South Ellen Street, Dundee, Scotland; husband of Jessie Diak nee McIntoch (married 14.1.1919 at the Unitarian Christian Church, Dundee, Scotland, died 17.1.1978, 45 years a widow, sleeping here), Sandy enlisted on the 18th July 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A72 Beltana on the 9th November 1915.
Report of letter home (see Links) from Private Frederick John Dyer Field (shop assistant from Park Street, Merewether, New South Wales, 30th Battalion, Reg No-331, wounded in action - 24.11.1916 (GSW right hand & legs, severe, RTA 10.4.1917, died 28.3.1951, age 55.
Admitted to hospital 21.12.1917 (appendicitis), 6.9.1918 (dysentery, severe).
Wounded in action - 24.6.1918 (not stated, Morlancourt).
Invalided to England 12.10.1918.
Sandy returned home on the 23rd August 1919 with wife Jessie, being discharged on the 18th October 1919.
Mr. Alder’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies upon Sandy’s brown granite Commonwealth War Graves’s headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 21.7.1932.
Older brother Richard (referred to as Dick or Dave, born about January 1890, Aberdeen, Scotland, labourer from Merewether Street, Merewether, New South Wales, enlisted 18.7.1915, 31st Battalion, Reg No-2267, RTA 14.5.1920 with mother and sister, died 27.4.1965, Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens & Crematorium.
Many thanks to Michelle Foster for the family history.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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