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217427Herbert Alexander Affleck
Australian Imperial Force 1st Field Artillery Brigade
from:Australia
(d.17th Aug 1917)
Herbert Alexander Affleck was born in 1891 on a station near Wilcannia, New South Wales. He completed his schooling at Armadale State School before commencing tertiary studies at the Working Men's College of Melbourne (the predecessor of RMIT University). At the outbreak of the First World War, Affleck was working as an Architects pupil in Armadale, Melbourne and had spent time with a reserve regiment.
Affleck enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 19th September 1914. He was assigned to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade and departed Melbourne aboard HMAT Shropshire on 20th October 1914. He was stationed briefly in Egypt before being deployed to Gallipoli.
Affleck was wounded on 6th August 1915 and subsequently transferred from Gallipoli to a rest camp on Lemnos. He re-joined his unit at Gallipoli on 6th October 1915 but was transferred to a hospital on Mudros due to appendicitis on 9th December 1915. After Gallipoli, Affleck spent time at Tel-el-Kebir in Egypt recuperating and preparing for the Western Front. He left Alexandria on 22nd March 1916 and arrived in Marseilles on 28th March 1916.
Affleck s brother, William Lindsay, also served with him as a gunner in the 3rd battery of the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. Their commanding officer said that Affleck was a good man and 'had he lived he would have received a decoration'. Herbert Affleck was killed in action while trying to rescue the wounded on 17th August 1917, and is buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Belgium
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