Alexander Leander Beckman

Service number: 1970

Rank: Gunner

Unit: 3rd Reinforcements, 31st Battalion transferred to 58th Battalion

Service: Australian Army

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Source: National Archives Australia

Alexander Leander Beckman joined the Army on 25th October 1915. His next of kin was his mother Annie S. Beckman. Alexander was 32 years old at enlistment and was a bricklayer by trade.

He was wounded in action on 10th July, 1917 then again on 23rd November 1917 with myalgia and shell concussion.

He was returned to Australia as medically unfit due to disability and discharged with chronic rheumatism on 6th June, 1918.