General Service Reserve -33rd BATTALION AIF
Private: 54195 Alfred Charles Curtis GOUGH.
Born: 14th October 1898. Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Married: 1923. Wickham via Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Wife: Violet Gough. nee: Cullen.
Died: 24th December 1939.
Father: William Curtis Gough. (1866-1937)
Mother: Mary Ellen Baxter. nee: Ward. (1876-1963)
INFORMATION
79 years ago today, on the 24th December 1939, Private Alfred Charles Curtis Gough, 33rd Battalion, labourer of Robinson Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 28 William Street, Carrington (Tighes Hill), N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 41.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135461215
Born at Newcastle, New South Wales on the 14th October 1898 to William Curtis and Mary Ellen Gough nee Ward; husband of Violet Gough nee Cullen (married 1923, died 1965), Alfred enlisted April 1918 with the 6th General Service Reinforcements - New South Wales at Newcastle, N.S.W., and was invalided home June 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139434253
Alfred’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Memorial Gates (Panel 4, photo).
Mr Gough also has a Plaque in the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance, Rookwood, Sydney.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/…/war-…/index.php…
Photo of the Carrington Memorial Gates taken by Ken Shilling, available from “Remembrance” CD, at the Newcastle Family History Society.
Lest We Forget.
(Gary Mitchell; December 2018)
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