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Title: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: Macushla on Sunday 27 April 25 11:04 BST (UK)

Good evening, all.

Wondering if anyone can help me with this please?
This is from a railway worker's record for my great-uncle, Edward Joseph (Aloysius) CHRISTIE.
It appears to be dated 31/3/1917 with the reference 'granted leave to serve with the AGEF'.

Google searching and Trove searching with this term haven't helped much; I believe that it is likely to be a WW1 military expeditionary force but I'm unclear as to what this is or means.

I have attached a copy of the document; my apologies if this has been added incorrectly.

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: mckha489 on Sunday 27 April 25 11:10 BST (UK)

I suspect it is an I not a G.

Australian imperial Expeditionary Force

Added.. I cannot see a war record for him at NAA

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: Macushla on Sunday 27 April 25 11:35 BST (UK)

Thank you so much!
I am puzzled too re the NAA records. His mother made a reference to RAN service in his obituary, but I can't find anything to support this, which seems so very odd.
Is anyone aware of anywhere else that might hold records of this organisation?

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: wivenhoe on Sunday 27 April 25 12:18 BST (UK)

  "His mother made a reference to RAN service in his obituary"

Can you identify the name and date of this notice......in a newspaper?

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: mckha489 on Sunday 27 April 25 12:28 BST (UK)

It’s here

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78218852?searchTerm=Edward%20Joseph%20christie

Is RAN Royal Australian Navy?

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: wivenhoe on Sunday 27 April 25 12:53 BST (UK)

Daily News (Perth)  6 Jan 1945
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/78774335?

This man, Jack CHRISTIE, would seem to be a brother, and served in the Navy, and I am not seeing a NAA record for him either.


Did this family use another name?

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: Macushla on Sunday 27 April 25 12:59 BST (UK)

Thank you all.

Yes, the article attached by wivenhoe is about John Frederick Christie (abt 1898 - 1974), Edward Joseph's brother.

The lack of records is very confusing.

Also apologies for not recognising that AIEF is AIF ...  ::)

As far as I am aware, they did not use another family name.

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: ~MERLIN~ on Sunday 27 April 25 13:15 BST (UK)

Edward Aloysius CHRISTIE was RANR = Royal Australian Naval Reserve.

https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=31370387

Title: Re: AGEF(?) reference in Australia 1940s
Post by: Macushla on Sunday 27 April 25 13:29 BST (UK)

Thank you so much, Merlin!
I had literally just found this and asked for the record to be copied. I couldn't see any open pages, so thank you very much.
I will look for Jack now, too.