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Albert Harold Masters

Commemorated at
Given name
A H (Albert Harold)
Family name
Masters
Service number
1816
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Gunner
Unit at embarkation
Army Service Corps(8 Company Division Ammunition Park)
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Gallipoli
Fate
DOW
Veteran Notes/Bio

1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "KIA Gallipoli with A.S.C. 1915(B)".

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 1816; POB: Bungendore: POE: Melbourne, Victoria; NOK: Father: Charles Masters .Bungendore.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Gunner; Unit: 301 MT [Mechanical Transport] ASC 17 Divisional Ammunition Park (Dec 1914); Age: 24 2/12; Occupation: Motor Engineer; DOE: 9.12.1914; Embarked: 22.12.1914. Melbourne. HMAT Ceramic. A40.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 10 Coy A.S.C. (Army Service Corps); DOE: 7.12.1914: DOW 30.06.1915.Buried Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli.

5. NAA File: Field Service record notes that he was a Gunner and “Died of Wounds received in action".

6. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis 2007 ISBN: 978-1-74027-487-6


7. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas' Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW as private Masters and on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 181.

8. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On the 3rd of November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sig for "Masters" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.

8 .Last updated December 2015.

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