FAIRBROTHER, Albert Edward
(Service number 78562)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank |
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Birth
| Date | 10 October 1876 | Place of Birth | Victoria, Australia |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | 35 Grey Street, Timaru | ||
| Occupation | Storekeeper | ||
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| Marital Status | Married | ||
| Next of Kin | Mrs A. FAIRBROTHER (wife), Stafford Street, Timaru | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Death
| Date | 31 August 1955 | Age | |
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| Place of Death | Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, NSW | ||
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Biographical Notes
Albert Edward Fairbrother was born in 1876 in Victoria, Australia, the son of Robert Fairbrother and his wife Jane Chapman Crammond. Albert married Annie Duckett in 1900 in Victoria. In 1903 he was a shop fitter at Bendigo, Victoria, Annie with him. In 1911, 1914 and 1919 Albert and his wife Annie were in Timaru. There in 1919 was Jane Chapman Fairbrother, widow, Albert's mother. Jane died in about 1929 in Australia. His father had died in 1903 in Victoria, Australia. In 1919 Albert had moved to Hanmer Springs Hospital. Some time after 1919 Albert and Annie have returned to Australia, settling in new South Wales, and Albert working as a nurseryman.
Sources
NZ Electoral Rolls (ancestry.com.au) [05 June 2017]
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