Albert Ernest FREE
1895 - 1917 (22 years)
Has 85 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
UNKNOWN - DECEASED
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Name Albert Ernest FREE [1] Relationship 
with Rodney VOJVODICH Birth Record 1895 Victoria, Australia 
[2] #11034 Birth 14 Apr 1895 Lalbert East, Victoria, Australia Gender Male Certificate-Will Have Burial 1917 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium [3] - Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial - Panel 31
Military Service Bef 12 Oct 1917 World War 1 - #414A - Private, 10th Machine Gun Company Death 12 Oct 1917 France Newspaper Article27 Aug 1918 [4] Siblings9 siblings Patriarch & Matriarch 
William FREE, b. UNKNOWN d. DECEASED (5 x Great Grandfather)
Joanna DALY, b. UNKNOWN d. DECEASED (Great Grandmother)Person ID I4267 MyBradyTree | BRADY, AJF, KLF, MAC, SMF Last Modified 2 Sep 2024
Father 
Samuel John FREE, b. 29 May 1861, Mount Hesse, Victoria, Australia d. 15 Jun 1939, Lalbert, Victoria, Australia (Age 78 years) Mother Fanny SHEPHERD, b. 3 Dec 1864, St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia d. 23 Jan 1927, Quambatook, Victoria, Australia (Age 62 years) Marriage 6 Apr 1891 St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia Family ID F559 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth Record - #11034 - 1895 - Victoria, Australia 
Birth - 14 Apr 1895 - Lalbert East, Victoria, Australia 
Burial - 1917 - Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 
Death - 12 Oct 1917 - France = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Name : FREE
Forenames : ALBERT ERNEST
Initials : A E
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Date of death : Fri Oct 12 00:00:00 UTC+0200 1917
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Nationality of the Regiment : Australian
Unit : 3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps.
Regiment : null
Regiment description : Australian Infantry, A.I.F
Regiment description 2 : Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Force : Army
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Cemetery name : YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
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Grave reference : Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31
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Country : Belgium
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Location :
Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War.
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Archive information :
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Visiting information :
I enclose an information leaflet on The Battles and Memorials of the Ypres Salient, which I hope you will find to be of interest.
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http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf
In Memory of
ALBERT ERNEST FREE
Private
414A
3rd Bn. Machine Gun Corps., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
who died on
Friday, 12th October 1917. Age 23.
Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Fanny Free, of Lalbert, Victoria.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Grave Reference/
Panel Number: Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31
Location: Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk).
Historical Information: The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those who died in the Salient before 16 August 1917. Those who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. New Zealand casualties are commemorated at Tyne cot and on memorails at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927.
Reference Darryl Brady. "Albert Ernest FREE". Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4267&tree=BRADY2008 (accessed September 11, 2024).
Sources - [S299] g.cheeseman-at-mac.com, Graeme Laurence Cheeseman, Some Information Submitted by Graeme Laurence Cheeseman.
- [S849] VIC - BDM, Information Listed on VIC - BDM.
- [S930] Matt Smith, Australian War Graves Photographic Archive, Australian War Graves Photographic Archive.
- [S954] Trove, Classified Advertising. (1918, August 27). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), p. 1. Retrieved October 24, 2012, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1406923.