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BORN 8 August 1882
DIED 11 August 1915 AGE 33
VC Won 9 August 1915 AGE 33
Place VC Won Lone Pine, Anzac sector, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Alfred John Shout No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 644 Awards VC MC
Regiment Regiment, 1st (New South Wales) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Wellington, New Zealand
Place Of Death On board Hospital Ship 'Euralia' off Gallipoli, Turkey
Buried/Location Ashes At sea, off Gallipoli, Turkey
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 11 August 1915
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 15 October 1915
VC Presented No presentation
Memorials
P Named on Lone Pine Memorial, (Panel 12), Gallipoli, Turkey
Named On Roll Of Honour, Panel 30, The Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Memorial plaque erected at Darlington Town Hall, NSW, now at Victoria Barracks Museum, Paddington, NSW, Australia
Named on the Darlingon Memorial Gate within the grounds of University of Sydney
Named on VC memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Named On Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, Australia
By The Way…
During his VC action he was morally wounded when one of the three grenades he had lit, prematurely exploded
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
