Alexander Lembit

Born 5.09.1890    Place Pärnu, Estonia     Ethnic origin Estonian    Religion Roman Catholic

Father Lembit, Michael (Mihkel)      Mother Lembit, Liisu

Brother Lembit, Johannes

Residence before arrival at Australia was in England and America

Arrived at Australia

            from America      on 25.04.1913       per Port Townsend      disembarked at Port Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Sydney

Occupation seaman, after the war: tram guard; worked on wharves

Wife Agnes Lembit (née Cross), married 1917 in England

Service

service number 30934   enlisted 4.09.1916 POE Sydney

unit Medium TMB   rank Gunner

place Western Front, 1917-1918

final fate RTA 8.08.1919       discharged 9.11.1919

Naturalisation 1923

Residence after the war Sydney

Died in the 1960s

Materials digitised naturalisation (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA) (Alex Lembit)

Group portrait of the 7th Medium Trench Mortar Battery. E01975 (AWM) (Electronic image currently unavailable)

From Peter Cassidy's letter:

My Grandfather, Berkeley Lambert, who died in the 1920's was in a Mortar Unit in France and it would appear that his life must have crossed Alexander Lembit's. My grandfather whilst gassed in France returned to Australia and brought back very little from the war other than some correspondence from his mother and an Australian Comforts Fund Diary dated 1919 - keeping in mind that the diary was produced well before the war was over. The diary contains very limited  written information but it does refer to an Alexander Lembit leaving France to catch up with his wife and gives details of her address in Scotland.  It also contains details of some of his friends and their addresses in both New South Wales and Scotland. This diary is actually Alexander Lembit's and for whatever reason my grandfather kept it with his papers on his return to Victoria Australia and, after his death in the 1920's, the diary was kept by my mother and subsequently given to me.  Under Owner's Particulars there are details of hat, boot and collar sizes, his height and weight etc.

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