ALTING, Joseph
| Service Number: | 1348 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
| Born: | Young, New South Wales, Australia, 1867 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Rural Labourer and Gold Prospector/Miner |
| Died: | Myocardia, Camperdown Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 4 October 1945 |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Corporal, 1348, 2nd New South Wales Mounted Rifles |
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Joseph Maynard Alting
Born 1869,in Young NSW, the 4th child in a total of 8 children (tragically the same year that his immediate brother: Joseph Alting (B-1867) had drowned during a family outing) to parents Gerhard Alting and his wife Sarah Pritchard.
Joseph served probably under his brother's name with E Sqn of the 2nd Regt NSWMR in South Africa between 1901-02. He was demobilised by 1904 probably due to Federation of the State Militias leading to reduced manning.
In 1909, at Forbes NSW, he fathered Joseph John Maynard Alting Carr (my grandfather) with a Mrs Ann Caroline Carr (estranged from her husband). They married on 14 Aug 1913 at Binaling NSW and had 2 further children together; The family comprised 11 children in total.
Joseph worked as a rural labourer / gold prospector / miner. Newspaper and police records paint a picture of a man who drifted into alcoholism and financial struggle towards the end of his life.
In May 1940, his 2nd son Athol (a bricklayer) passed away due to Tetnus and in Jun 1943 His Step-son Ignatious A.F.F. Carr died as a POW of the Japanese in Burma. In Jul 1944, he was hospitalized after being found with an apparently self-inflict cut to the throat.
Joseph (now 76yrs) passed away on the 04 Oct 1945 at Camperdown NSW from myocardia, while in the care of his step daughter Nellie (born in 1890).
Submitted 21 July 2021 by John Alting-Carr
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