Alfred John Shout, VC, MC was a New Zealand-born soldier and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions at Lone Pine in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. Born in Wellington, Shout had served in the Second Boer War as a teenager and was mentioned in despatches for saving a wounded man.
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Alfred John Shout, VC, MC was a New Zealand-born soldier and an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was posthumously awarded the VC for his actions at Lone Pine in August 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. Born in Wellington, Shout had served in the Second Boer War as a teenager and was mentioned in despatches for saving a wounded man before being discharged in 1902. He remained in South Africa for the next five years, serving as an artilleryman in the Cape Colonial Forces from 1903. In 1907, the Shout family immigrated to Australia, settling in Darlington, where Shout worked for Resch’s Brewery as a carpenter and joiner. In August 1914, he joined in the Australian Imperial Force for active service overseas and was appointed a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion. After training in Egypt, he took part in the Anzac landings atGallipoli on 25 April 1915. For his leadership during the invasion and its immediate aftermath, he was awarded the Military Cross and later mentioned inDespatches. His three gallantry awards made him the most highly decorated member of the AIF for the campaign. Shout was made a sergeant in the Prince Alfred Own Cape Field Artillery, with which he served until 1907. While living in Cape Town, he married Rose Alice Howe, an Australian-born wife and had a daughter named Florence in 1905.
He also joined the 29th Infantry Regiment of Sydney, and was a regular visitor to the Randwick rifle range at Randwick, a suburb of Randwick. He died two days after being grievously wounded, and died in hospital two days later. He is survived by his wife Rose Alice and their daughter Florence, who was born in 1905 and grew up to be a mother-of-three. He leaves behind a wife and a son, David, and a daughter, Victoria, who lives in Sydney with her husband and their two children. The family also has a son and daughter-in-law, David Shout-Smith, who is also a member of Sydney’s Citizens’ Forces and served in World War II. He had a son named David, who died in a car crash in the South African desert in 1969. He has also a daughter called Victoria, and she died in 2011 at the age of 89. He left behind a son called David, a father and a step-son, who also served in WW2. He and his wife are survived by their daughter, Florence, and their son David, son David-David, and his daughter Victoria-David-Smith. The couple also have a son who was killed in a road accident in the North West of South Africa in 1998. He will be buried in a private ceremony at Stellenbosch, South Africa, in February 2013. He served with the Border Horse in the early 1900s in the Transvaal, and later with the Cape Colony Forces.
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