Service: Army – CMF Land Headquarters
Service number: V10995
Locality on Enlistment: Wool Wool
Duration of Service: 11 Feb 1941 – 28 Aug 1945
Prisoner of War: No
Honours: None for display
Date and Place of Birth: 29 Nov 1877 Fulham, England
Parents: Frederick RUSSELL and Delilah FENN
Spouse: Freda May JOHNSON
School/s:
Occupation: Motor Driver
Date and Place of Death: 13 Aug 1955 Colac
Place of Burial: Colac Cemetery
NOTES: Albert returned to England to join the British Army in WW1 and in WW2 he enlisted in the Australian Army’s CMF stating that he was 54 years old, when in fact he was 63 years of age. He did this because the Citizen Military Force (CMF) upper age limit was 60.