Military History

Embarked Melbourne per HMAT ‘Aeneas’ A60 for UK 30.10.1917.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 51st Battalion, 11th Reinforcement.
McCrae disembarked at Devonport 27.12.1917. He marched in to Codford Camp from Australia 27.12.1917. McCrae was appointed Acting L/Cpl 26.2.1918. He proceeded overseas to France 15.4.1918 and disembarked at Calais 16.4.1918. He marched in to base details and reverted to rank of Private. He was taken on strength with the 51st Bn. 22.4.1918, prior to the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. McCrae was wounded in action in the Field, gassed 30.4.1918. He was invalided to England by HS ‘Grantilly Castle’ 4.5.1918. He was admitted to the 3rd General Hospital, Oxford, with slight gas poisoning 5.5.1918. McCrae was admitted sick to the Camp Isolation Hospital with scabies 3.8.1918. He transferred from the 51st Bn. to the 4th Command Depot at Tidworth 21.8.1918 and returned to his Bn. 17.9.1918. McCrae transferred to Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) from the 11th Reinf. to 51st Bn. 17.9.1918 and was taken on strength. He was listed for return to Australia in 1919.
Embarked Devonport per ‘Anchises’ for return to Australia 28.2.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Albany 10.4.1919.
Discharged 5.5.1919.
Final Rank Private, Australian Army Supply Column.
Medical Condition NK (wounded gassed).
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal
Photos HMAT 'Aeneus'. Photograph reproduced with permission of the State Library NSW image No. a636033r
             Codford No. 7 Camp 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM C01288
             Stretcher bearers of the 8th Field Ambulance, near Villers-Bretonneux, France. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM E02863
             HMAT 'Anchises'.  Sourced and reproduced with permission of Great Southern Cards
Information Source
AWM C01288. Codford No. 7 Camp 1917. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memrial
AWM E02863. Stretcher bearers of the 8th Field Ambulance, near Villers-Bretonneux, France. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll- Alexander George McCrae
Great Southern Cards. HMAT 'Anchises'. Sourced and reproduced with permission of Great Southern Cards. http www.greatsoutherncards.com_.au UK-ships.htm
Guildford Grammar School Honour Roll
NAA: B2455, McCrae A G
SLNSW image No. a636033r. HMAT 'Aeneus'. Photograph reproduced with permission of the State Library NSW


‘Anchorfield’, East Narrogin, WA.

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