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Albert  Wilson

Name on Board AR Wilson
Name on Service
Records
Albert   Wilson
Enlistment Age -
Occupation -
Place of Birth
Next of Kin
Address
Marital Status
Enlistment Date
Service No. 2270 (AWM Honour Roll) 5270 (burial records)
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place
Embarkation Date
Embarkation Ship HMAS Huon, Royal Australian Navy
Unit on Embarkation HMAS Huon, Royal Australian Navy
Date of Death 27/06/1918
Unit on Death HMAS Huon, Royal Australian Navy
Rank on Death Chief Engine Room Artificer, 1st Class
Cause of Death Illness (Haemorrhagic pancreatitis)
Place of Wounding/
Death
Brindisi, Italy
Cemetery or Memorial Bari War Cemetery, Bari, Apulia, Italy
Additional Information Honour Roll Circular, Australian War Memorial, notes the place of association as Williamstown, Vic. Albert Wilson was originally buried at the Brindisi Communal Cemetery. His body was exhumed with 84 other WW1 servicemen to the Bari War Cemetery in 1981.
Additional References Matthew Smith Thesis: QUT ePrints, The Relationship Between Australians and the Overseas Graves of the First World War, p266, accessed: Matthew Smith Thesis.pdf
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