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Alfred McCOLL

Regimental number298
Place of birthMelbourne, Victoria
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationDraughtsman
AddressGarton Street, Princes Hill, Victoria
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Next of kinFather, J J McColl, 114 Garton Street, Princes Hill, Victoria
Previous military serviceServed in the Public School Cadet Corps.
Enlistment date17 August 1914
Rank on enlistmentCorporal
Unit name7th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/24/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board Transport A20 Hororata on 19 October 1914
Rank from Nominal RollCorporal
Unit from Nominal Roll7th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularExtract from Scotch Collegian on December 1916: official news has been received that Alfred McColl (previously reported missing) was killed on April 25th. He won a Government Scholarship and was enrolled at Scotch. He passed Junior Public in 1910 and Senior year in 1911. He played for the first eighteen during seasons 1910 and 1911 after leaving school he joined the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission.
FateKilled in Action 25 April 1915
Place of death or woundingGallipoli, Turkey
Age at death23
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsThe Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 29), Gallipoli, Turkey

The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey.

The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank.

The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here.

Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
50
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: John James and Ada Maria McCOLL, 114 Garton Street, Princes Hill, Melbourne, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrother: 9642 Pte Goulson Stewart McCOLL, 13th Field Ambulance, returned to Australia, 13 December 1918; Uncle: [277] Captain Haldane Stewart McCOLL, 58th Bn, returned to Australia, 3 July 1919.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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