BOLIN, Albert Percy
| Service Number: | 2286 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Carrington, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, June 1891 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Crane hand |
| Died: | Carrington, New South Wales, Australia, 28 April 1943, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-23. 124. |
| Memorials: | Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2286, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2286, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2286, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 23 Mar 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 2286, 30th Infantry Battalion, German Spring Offensive 1918, GSW left leg | |
| 20 Nov 1920: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2286, 30th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
77 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 28th April 1943, Private Albert Percival Bolin (also known as Algy), 30th Battalion, crane hand from 85 Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales, father of one (Fred), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 52. ANGLICAN 1-23. 124.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140452550
Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 13th April 1891 to Frederick and Annie Bolin; husband of Lillian (Lily) Isabella Bolin nee Ford of Rawson Street, Kurri Kurri, N.S.W. (married 1915, Wickham, N.S.W., died 1978, 35 years a widow), Albert enlisted September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital, France, 25.7.1916 (acute synovitis, left knee), 24.5.1917 (trench fever, mild), and wounded in action - 21.3.1918 (GSW left leg & scalp, fracture right metacarpal, amputation of right leg - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138148138, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140979605), Mr Bolin was invalided home March 1919, and was not officially discharged until November 1920.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139647693
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159373706
Albert’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall at Sandgate Cemetery.
Mr Bolin’s service has been commemorated with a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque at his gravesite, and a plaque placed at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney.
Lest We Forget.
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