Alwin Huard Brierly

Service Number: 1821 Enlisted: 5 March 1915 Last Rank: Private Last Unit: 25th Infantry Battalion Born: St Pancras, Middlesex, England, 26 January 1877 Home Town: Mackay, Mackay, Queensland Schooling: Not yet discovered Occupation: Farm hand Died: Uraemie, Greece, 1 January 1916, aged 38 years Cemetery: Portianos Military Cemetery Plot III, Row B, Grave No. 299 Memorials: Mackay Old Town Hall Honour Roll Alwyn Huard Brierley Service No. 1281 25th Batt, 7th Brigade, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Son of Oswald Walters Brierly and Louise Marie Brierly. Born in London, England. Born London *************************************************************************** Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916: BRIERLY, ALWIN HUARD, Private, No. 1281, 25th Battalion, 7th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, son of the late Sir Oswald Walters Brierly, Marine Painter to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by his 2nd wife, Louise Marie, eldest daughter of Louis Huard, of 37, Onslow Square, S.W., and Brussels; b. London, 26 Jan. 1877; educated in London; went to South Africa as a lad in 1895, and after some years there left for New Zealand, and finally settled in Australia about 1907. After the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and enlisted at Mackay, North Queensland, in Oct. 1914, and after training at Enogerra Camp, Brisbane, from March to Aug. 1915, left for Egypt with the second reinforcements. He died in No. 27 General Hospital at Mudros, 1 Jan. 1916, from uremia, brought on by exposure in the trenches, and was buried in the cemetery there; unmarried. Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)