Albert Antoine VASSY

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VASSY, Albert Antoine

Service Number:	2000
Enlisted:	28 September 1914, Enlisted at Albert Park, Victoria
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	4th Divisional Train
Born:	Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, September 1882
Home Town:	St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia, May 1964, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Boronia, Wall ZD, Niche 123. Service held on 18 May 1964
Memorials:

28 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2000, 300th Company Mechanical Transport, Enlisted at Albert Park, Victoria
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Lance Corporal, 2000, 300th Company Mechanical Transport, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Lance Corporal, 2000, 300th Company Mechanical Transport, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
7 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Depot Units of Supply
11 Mar 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Train, From 19th Depot Unit of Supply
7 Nov 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 4th Divisional Train, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Peter Vassy and Teresa Vassy nee Loriot of Caulfield, Victoria. Brother of Peter Considine Vassy who drown when he fell overboard from HS Formosa on 13 Ocrober 1915. His name appears on the Lone Pine Memorial, Panel 68.

Next of kin given as his sister H.F. Roxburgh of 'Annadale', Bishop Street, Box Hill, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 19 June 1919 aboard HT Miltiades disembarking on 5 August 1919

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1921c Albert married Wyuna Mannington Eicke in Victoria

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