Maurice Gordon ALEXANDER

ALEXANDER, Maurice Gordon

Service Number: 2328
Enlisted: 26 July 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank: Sapper
Last Unit: 7th Field Company Engineers
Born: Sydney, NSW, 8 December 1898
Home Town: Haberfield, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Forest Lodge Primary School
Occupation: Cabinetmaker
Died: Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1916, aged 17 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

26 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Liverpool, New South Wales
6 Sep 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2328, 20th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
6 Sep 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2328, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney
29 Jul 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 2328, 7th Field Company Engineers, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2328 awm_unit: 7th Field Company, Australian Engineers awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1916-07-29

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Biography

20 Battalion

Rank - Private/Sapper

10 January 1916 - Taken on strength at Tel el Kebir

10 February 1916 - To hospital, influenza

17 February 1916 - Discharged to duty

4 March  1916 - Taken on strength 7 Field Engineers

14 March 1916 - Embarked HMT Minneapolis at Alexandria

19 March 1916 - Disembarked Marseilles

18 July 1916 - Charged with failing to keep his rifle clean. Fined 7 days pay

29 July 1916 - Reported wounded and missing

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, victory Medal

Son of Louis and Martha Alexander, 36 Ramsay Road, Haberfield, New South Wales

 

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Louis and Martha ALEXANDER, 36 Ramsay Street, Haberfield, NSW

ALEXANDER.—In sad but loving memory of our darling soldier boy, Sapper Maurice Gordon Alex ander, reported wounded, missing, then killed inaction, at Pozieres, aged l8 years, July 29, 1916.
Oh the anguish of the mother,
Oh the bitter tears she shed
When she heard her boy was missing,
And she wondered is he dead.
Oh those weeks and months of torture,
Oh the agony and pain;
And she weeps and prays and wonders
Will her boy come home again.
Killed in action came still later—
But still I'll watch and wait for him.
Inserted by his heart-broken parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Alexander, Coronation Studios, and Ramsay
road, Haberfield. G.R H.S.

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