840 Sapper Alfred Marshall, 28, a member of St Philip’s Anglican Church Auburn and an ex-pupil of Auburn North Public School was a fireman having completed a five-year apprenticeship at The Australian Ammonia Co. He is one of four Auburn Memorial men that died of sickness before reaching the front line.
Marshall enlisted on 20 January 1916 and embarked exactly one month later on the Ulysses. This voyage of the Ulysses was among the last of the troop transports to travel to Egypt. For the rest of the war, reinforcements from Australia travelled to the UK via South Africa.
Marshall spent four months in Egypt before embarking for the Western Front. He reached the French port of Le Havre but died there of Broncho-Pneumonia on 27 August 1916 in the 7th Canadian Stationary Hospital. Marshall had been in the AIF only seven months.
Marshall is buried in the Ste Marie Cemetery in Le Havre. An image of his headstone is shown below.