Soldier profiles

Name : FERGUSON, ALBERT
Service Number : VX24559
Date of Birth : 15/06/1903
Place of Birth : NOTTING HILL, ENGLAND
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : CARPENTER LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 10/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : SOUTH PORTLAND, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : FERGUSON, MYRTLE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/15 BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War :
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 05/04/1944
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6205430 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Attached to Salvation Army and served with 2/15 Battalion at El Alamein, Egypt.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : married. No previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 1.5 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, brown hair. Marital status : married. Marks / scars : scar left neck. Full time war service : A.I.F. which included 1094 days active service (403 days within Australia & 691 days overseas). Discharge certificate no. 70708.

Service record
10/06/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
13/06/1940 Transferred to Infantry Training Depot No.3 Shepparton, Victoria.
28/06/1940 Posted from Recruit Reception Depot Shepparton, Victoria.
28/06/1940 Transferred from 15 Infantry Training Battalion to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
27/08/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with enteritis.
30/08/1940 Discharged to duty.
06/09/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with entercolitis acute.
18/09/1940 Discharged to duty.
14/10/1940 Admitted Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria with diarrhea.
22/10/1940 Discharged from Puckapunyal 4 Australian General Hospital, Seymour, Victoria.
07/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
11/08/1941 Evacuated to 7 Australian General Hospital with Not Yet Diagnosed Neurosis (N.Y.D.N.) and transferred to X list.
26/08/1941 Discharged 7 Australian General Hospital with neurosis average impaired constitution and transferred to 1 Australian Depot Battalion.
26/08/1941 Marched in.
19/09/1941 Medical classification : fit for duties other than active service with field formations.
26/09/1941 Marched out to Pioneer Training Battalion.
26/09/1941 Marched in ex Depot Battalion.
26/09/1941 Detailed for duty to Salvation Army.
26/09/1941 Promoted to acting Corporal.
26/09/1941 Attached for duty Salvation Army Middle East.
27/02/1943 Embarked Middle East on H.M.T. W324 and disembarked Sydney, New South Wales.
09/06/1943 Admitted 115 Casterton General Hospital, Victoria with injury to hand.
26/06/1943 Discharged to unit.
08/01/1944 Transferred out from 22 Australian Supply Depot Ballarat, Victoria to 21 Australian Supply Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
09/01/1944 Transferred in from 22 Australian Supply Depot.
23/02/1944 Rank of Corporal confirmed.
04/04/1944 Transferred out to General Details Depot Victoria Lines of Communication area South Melbourne, Victoria for discharge.
04/04/1944 Marched in ex unit for discharge Royal Park, Victoria.
05/04/1944 Discharged on compassionate grounds.