Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 30/11/1917
- Date of Discharge
- 23/02/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Darwin, Northern Territory
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Tharwa ACT
- Address (at enlistment)
- Darwin, Northern Territory (previously Tharwa ACT)
- Occupation
- Rigger
- Next of Kin
- Norman Bambury (brother), Leichhardt NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 3506
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 41 Battalion AIF
Notes
Alwyn Bambury was born in Tharwa in 1893 and was the brother of Horace and Roland Bambury. His parents ran the post office at Tharwa in the 1890s and the punt across the Murrumbidgee River first at Tharwa and then at Uriarra. He was working as a rigger in the Northern Territory when he enlisted in the 41st Battalion in November 1917. He was gassed near the Beaurevoir Line in October 1918 and returned to Australia where he was discharged in February 1919. Bambury married in 1921 and later lived in Oatley, a suburb of Sydney. He died on 17 November 1959 at Hurstville in Sydney aged 66 years.
Description - height 5 feet 6 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 38 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Bruce Moore, 'Cotter Country', 1999
Monaro Pioneers Index - http://www.monaropioneers.com/pioneers.htm