Lives of the First World War

Source information

ID: 8141421

Reference: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP

Title: Australian ANZACs from the National Archives of Australia

Description: This dataset lists Australian ANZACs - they are people who have personnel files for their service in the Australian Imperial Force (AlF) during the First World War. The personnel files are held by the National Archives of Australia (Archives). The entries in this dataset are linked to their personnel files on the Archives site. There you can find Attestation Papers, Service and Casualty Forms and other miscellaneous military documents and correspondence. Soon you will be able to find additional information from Archives and other sources on the Archives site.

UPP: ANZ/FIRST-AU0IMP/70001

Credit: © National Archives of Australia

Source information

ID: 8872848

Title: Edwin Robert Aland

Description: Born 28 Sep 1872 Drayton, Toowoomba Region. Queensland, Australia Died 29 July 1916 Pozieres.Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France Son of Robert Aland M.L.A. (one-time Mayor of Toowoomba) & Margaret (nee Clegg). Husband of Mary Ann (nee Sewell) & father of five. Enlisted on 25 August 1915 & embarked for overseas service on 3 January 1916. Served as a Private with the 25th Infantry Battalion, A.I.F. (Australian Imperial Forces). Killed in Action at Pozieres 29 July 1916 at the age of 43. Until 1936 Private 'Bob' Aland was commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial for Australian soldiers with no known grave. His remains were exhumed in in that year by a French farmer, identified by his identity disc and reburied with military honours in the Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps.

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