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Home Page The Men The Families The Cemeteries History Visit Gallipoli Contact Us Site Map The Project   AITCHISON, Alexander Walker A.I.F.
Unit 18th Battalion Rank Private Service no. 1128
Date of Death 22 August 1915 Place of Death  

Age

 31
Cemetery Hill 60 Details Special Memorial 1
Epitaph Too Dearly Loved to Ever be Forgotten
   
Next of Kin (Wife) AITCHISON Elsie May 10 Banks Ave, Daceyville, NSW
Parents David Frith and Elsie Aitchison  
Date of Birth   Place of birth NSW Sydney Source  
           

General

"On the 27th August we were close to Hill 60.  We left our trench, charged and took an advanced trench from which we had to retire to our old quarters.  There we was Aitchison lying with his face terribly injured but not quite dead.  The bearers refused to move him as his case was hopeless.  He died."  Private J White1513, B Coy, 18th Battalion.

Australian War Memorial, Red Cross files, 1DRL/0428, 40101 (source 7)
   

Other Sources

  
Photo The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, 9 October 1915 (source 24)
Photo The Sydney Mail Newspaper, 27 October 1915, page 9 (source 15)
Newspaper article The Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper, 8 October 1915 (source 24)
Family details
Various Penrith City Council History (http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/print.asp?id=891)
 

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