Severs, Albert (Depot)
Place of Birth: Port Melbourne, VIC
Age: 23 years
Enlistment Details: Tuesday, 1 June 1915 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: Depot view online service record
Next of Kin:
Mrs Wolfenden (friend)
‘Kia Ora’, Beaconsfield Parade
Northcote, VIC
Fate:
DOD: Saturday, 14 August 1915
Place: Alfred Hospital
Died from Cerebro Spinal Meningitis prior to embarkation.
Brother: Alfred Duncan Severs
Private, Australian Army Medical Corps, die from illness, 14 August, 1915, aged 23, commemorated Coburg General Cemetery.
Parents: (both late), born Port Melbourne, educated Rutherglen Viticultural College. Severs enlisted as a 23-year-old labourer, showing a friend Mrs WOLFENDEN in Northcote as next of kin; trained at Seymour Camp and died of spino-cerebral meningitis, Alfred Hospital after ten weeks confinement, 14 August, 1915, interred Coburg General Cemetery. Brother, 2024, Alfred Duncan SEVERS, also born Port Melbourne, enlisted from Talbot in country Victoria.
Additional research by Brian Membrey
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Brian Membrey
There is no trace of the births of either Albert or Alfred Severs in Victorian records; the best guess is that with both patents listed as deceased, the brothers may have been adopted or fostered out to a Severs family. Alfred died in Warrnambool in 1957 at 62 years; both parents listed as “unknown”.