NAME Alexander Falconer
BORN 18 October 1886 Edinburgh Scotland
DIED ?
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 2992
UNIT 56th Battalion
ENLISTED Melbourne 23 May 1915
DISCHARGED Sydney 30 May 1917 – Medically Unfit – Loss of right leg

Alexander Falconer’s block was Portion No. 313 on Hillview Soldier Settlement was in the County of Cumberland, Parish of St Luke, Parramatta Land District. Hillview Soldier Settlement comprised 36 blocks (of 8 acres each). Although Alexander stated on his application that he wanted to go to Grantham Soldiers Settlement,[1] he was given the block at Hillview.

Alexander Falconer took up occupation on 7 June 1920. On 24 July 1924, he applied for permission to transfer the property to Adden Alfred Popple, also a returned soldier. His reasons given for transfer were ‘owing to his inability to carry on (because) of war injuries’.[2]

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7052], Particulars required in the case of a returned soldier desiring to join a soldiers’ group settlement 2 July 1917.

[2] Ibid, Proposed transfer Falconer to Popple 30 August 1924.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7052] Alexander Falconer.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Alexander Falconer) online: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3547253&I=1&SE=1.