255 Private Alfred Harper WHALAN, a 29 year old Labourer from Murgon, Queensland. He enlisted with the AIF on 2 September 1914 and was allotted to the 9th Battalion, F Company which embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A5 Omrah on 24 September 1914. WHALAN subsequently was Wounded in Action, 25 April 1915. During the Great War, WHALAN was Killed in Action, 3 September 1916.

Sydney Mail, 26 May 1915, p. 9.

Brothers:

1336 Private Glyndwr Montagu WHALAN, 18th Battalion, Killed in Action, 22 August 1915;

477 Corporal Richard Percy Whalan, 1st Machine Gun Battalion, Killed in Action, 18 September 1918; and,

351 Gunner Royal William WHALAN, 2nd Division Medium Trench Mortar Battery, Returned to Australia, 5 April 1919.