Alfred Herbert Boyle

Service number: 5038

Rank: Private

Unit: 4th Battalion 16th Reinforcement

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives of Australia

Alfred Herbert Boyle was born in Sydney and was 18 years and 2 months at enlistment on 24th January 1916. Alfred’s father Alfred Ernest Boyle lived at Melrose, 160 Pittwater Road, Manly. Alfred was a carpenter and station-hand by trade.

He embarked from Sydney on the Makanini on the 1st April 1916. Alfred was hospitalized several times; first with septic poisoning and dermatitis then with measles, and spent 25th September 1916 to 28th May 1917 in hospital with the above mentioned illnesses. Alfred was then wounded in action with gunshot wounds to the right thigh on 23 March 1918 and invalided to England on 1st April 1918.

Alfred embarked for Australia while still under treatment for his wounds on 31st July 1918 on the Malta and was discharged on 14th March 1921. Manly Daily September 1918