CAPSTICKS, Albert Allen

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Place of Enlistment
Sydney NSW

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
02/10/1889
Place of Birth
Nottingham, England
Address (at enlistment)
Duntroon ACT
Occupation
Steward
Next of Kin
Mrs. A. Capsticks (mother), Mansfield, England

Unit and Rank Details

Service Number
57007
Final Rank
Gunner
Final Unit
Royal Field Artillery (British Army)

Notes

Capsticks worked at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from 1913 until 1931 when the college moved to Sydney. He married Eva Warwick in 1919 and they later lived in Braddon and Reid.

Capsticks was an Imperial Reservist and was called up upon the outbreak of the war to serve with the British Army. He embarked from Sydney on the 'Miltiades' on 17 October 1914. He also enlisted for service in World War 2 and served as a Private with the HQ Second Australian Army AIF. He died of illness at Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney on 12 February 1947.

Sources

NAA RecordSearch - Series MT1487/1 (Service records and correspondence concerning Australians serving with other Imperial forces, World War 1)
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queanbeyan Age 9/12/1913
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
ACT Electoral Rolls 1943, 1947, 1953

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