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Died: 4th April 1918. Killed in Action Villers-Bretonnuex, France.
Mother: Mary Catherine Archer. nee: Currie.
Albert John Archer enlisted with 33rd Battalion AIF and was the first
man recruited to the new Infantry Battalion. The first man recruited to the old 33rd
Infantry Militia was Warrant Officer First Class: 1. Charles Edward FIELDHOUSE.
26th November 1917.
Informant: Company Quartermaster Sergeant:1 Albert John ARCHER. We were at Messines on June 7th and
I saw Private: 1276 Hampton WILLIS struck by a shell in the breast and badly wounded and saw him
carried out. I was told in the Battalion that he lived a day and a halfbut did not hear were he was buried. He was about 5 ft
7, fair, 22 years, came from Wandsworth, N.S.W.
Boulogne, France.
William and Catherine Archer were married in 1875 at Armidale, N.S.W. Marriage Cert:1802/1875
and had 8 children, 6 boys and 2 girls. Leslie W G Archer born 1876 at Armidale, N.S.W.
Birth Cert:7072/1876. Edward V Archer born 1884 at Armidale, N.S.W. Birth Cert:28505/1884.
Leslie W T Archer born 1886 at Armidale, N.S.W. Birth Cert:30562/1886. Clifford Currie J
Archer born 1887 at Armidale, N.S.W. Birth Cert:31540/1887 and died in 1962. Death Cert:16522/1962.
Albert John Archer born 1888 at Armidale, N.S.W. Birth Cert:32554/1888 and died in 1918 at
Villers-Bretonnuex, France. Vera M L Archer born 1890 at Armidale, N.S.W. birth Cert:4495/1890.
Catherine O A Archer born 1892 at Armidale, N.S.W. Birth Cert:4110/1892. Hiltard B Archer
(No Birth Record) died in 1889 at Armidale, N.S.W. Death Cert:12847/1889.
(Australian National Archives)
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