NAME Alfred Leopold James DOCWRA
BORN Abt. 1888
DIED  
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 614
UNIT 2nd Battalion
ENLISTED Lithgow 18 August 1914
DISCHARGED Sydney 23 January 1919

Alfred Docwra obtained his block by transfer from William Glover on 16 May 1923.[1] It consisted of only eight acres, in the County of Cumberland, Parish of Gidley, Metropolitan Land District. Alfred Docwra applied for his Advance on 9 August 1922 and it was approved 2 June 1920.[2]  He also acquired the outstanding amount owing from William Glover’s Advance – which amounted to £362.1.10.[3]  Docwra effectively made application for an Advance of this amount. It appears however, that as there was ‘a Common Law Mortgage over the Land and the Deeds of Title to the land are in our (RSS Branch) custody, the transaction had not been completed, although Glover had left the property and Docwra was located there’.[4]

By January 1924, the Advance had been repaid in full.

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department; NRDS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files, [12/6903 No. 3066] Alfred Leopold James Docwra, Harold Wheeler, Solicitor to Under Secretary for Lands, 1 December 1913.

[2] Ibid, Office Memorandum Return Soldiers’ Settlement Branch, 4 January 1923.

[3] Ibid,  Statutory Declaration 31October, 1922.

[4] Ibid, Office Memorandum, 4 January, 1923.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Recprds NSW:  Lands Department, NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files, [12/6903 No. 3066] Alfred Leopold James Docwra.

National Archives of Australia:  B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, Alfred Leopold James Docwra online:  http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3510164