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217476 Sgt. Albert Victor Bracher MM. Australia Imperial Force 25th Infantry from:Australia (d.29th Jul 1916) Albert Victor Bracher was born at Norton, England in 1887 and worked as a sugarcane farmer in Central Queensland before the outbreak of the First World War. He had completed six years of service in the Royal Navy before joining his brother in Brisbane in 1909. Bracher enlisted in the Australia Imperial Force in Maryborough, Queensland on 15th January 1915. He was assigned to the 25th Infantry Battalion and departed from Brisbane on 29th June 1915 aboard HMAT Aeneas. Apart from time spent recovering from illness, he served at Gallipoli from September until December 1915. He was awarded the Military Medal for his actions at Gallipoli on 29th October 1915 when he was involved in dangerous patrols and reconnaissance work that included preventing a Turkish soldier from lighting a bomb that would have landed in an Allied trench. Following the evacuation from Gallipoli, he spent some time at Mudros before arriving in France in March 1916. Albert Bracher was killed in action at Pozieres on 29th July 1916 and is commemorated on the Villers-Brettoneaux Memorial, France Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please put first part of your email, (before the @ sign) in the first box, and the second part in the second box. Do not include @, it is automatic. Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**