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Alfred Senior the son of George and Elizabeth Ann Senior, was born in Hull in 1892. The family lived in Hull before moving to Beverley. In 1911 they were living at 22, Norwood, Beverley. George died in 1910. Alfred worked as a butcher, and a a farm labourer before he emigrated to Australia. Alfred left the UK for Freemantle, Western Australia on 1 Aug 1914 sailing from London on the ship Demosthenes, after arriving in Australia he was employed as a railway porter.
He joined the Australian Army on 10 Sep 1914, his attestation paper on joining the Army states that he was apprenticed to A Fussey, Beverley for two years. His Service Record shows that he had several periods of illness, suffering from dysentery while at Gallipoli in Aug 1915; he was ill for several months and transferred to England for treatment. He returned to active service in France but contracted bronchitis twice in 1916 and 1917. He returned to his unit in France on 4 Apr 1918 after the second bout of bronchitis.
Private Senior was wounded on 22 Apr 1918 dying of his wounds on 11 Jun 1918. He is buried in the Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Wimereux, Departmente du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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