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Alfred Samuel F BEDINGFELD

Regimental number7662
Place of birthCorowa, New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationBank clerk
Address40 Giersten Street, Waverley, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation26
Height5' 10"
Weight135 lbs
Next of kinMother, Mrs Jane Bedingfeld, 40 Giersten Street, Waverley, New South Wales
Enlistment date11 January 1916
Place of enlistmentSydney, New South Wales
Rank on enlistmentSapper
Unit nameWireless Signal Troop Pack 1
AWM Embarkation Roll number22/32/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A12 Saldanha on 5 February 1916
Rank from Nominal RollSergeant
Unit from Nominal RollAustralian Army Pay Corps
FateReturned to Australia 8 April 1918
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance
Discharge date31 October 1918
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 3033 Pte Thomas George Sydney BEDINGFELD, 6th Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia, 29 January 1919; 14267 Sapper Richard Henry Norman BEDINGFELD, Wireless Signal Squadron, discharged, 13 September 1917; 2587 2nd Air Mechanic Norman BEDINGFELD, 2nd Special Draft, returned to Australia, 6 May 1919.
Other details

War service: Egypt, England

Transferred to Australian Army Pay Corps, London, 3 October 1916.

Admitted to 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, Southall, 9 December 1916 (influenza); discharged to AIF Headquarters, 15 January 1917.

Admitted to 2nd Auxiliary Hospital, 12 April 1917; discharged same day.

Admitted to 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 23 February 1918 (anaemia); discharged to duty, 6 March 1918.

Commenced return to Australia on board HS 'Dunluce Castle', 8 April 1918; departed Suez on board HT 'Karoola', 27 April 1918; discharged, Sydney (medically unfit), 31 October 1918. Medal: British War Medal
Miscellaneous detailsServed for 5 months as a wireless operator on HMAT A43.
Date of death13 May 1949

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