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Alexander LOVE

Regimental number856
Place of birthCobrico, Victoria
SchoolState School, Victoria
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationLabourer
AddressTimboon, Victoria
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation30
Next of kinWife, Mrs M A Love, Timboon, Victoria
Enlistment date15 July 1915
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll13 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name29th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/46/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on 10 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal Roll29th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 2 March 1917
Place of death or woundingFlers, France
Age at death32
Age at death from cemetery records31
Place of burialBancourt British Cemetery (Plot VII, Row E, Grave No. 2), France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
115
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: John and Ellen LOVE; husband of Mary LOVE, thornton Street, Camperdown, Victoria. Native of Cobrico
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 857 Corporal John Jennings LOVE MM, 32nd Bn, returned to Australia, 8 May 1919; 855 Pte Arthur LOVE, did not embarked; died of illness, 23 October 1915.

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