Sergeant Alick George Robus Blechynden
- Rank
- Sergeant
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1917 Western Front
- Service number
- 571
- Unit
- 28 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- France
- Date of death
- 28 February 1917
- Age
- 25
- Plaque number
- L297A
- Co-located plaques
- L297 - PTE Leslie Blechynden
- Dedicated by
- His family on 11 March 2006
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Sergeant Alick George Robus Blechynden of 28 Battalion was born in Beverley in March 1892, the son of Charles and Caroline.
He attended state schools at Beverley and North Fremantle.
The Blechynden families have lived on and farmed 'Roeland', 'Red Hill' and 'Burnside' properties in the south west for many years. Part of a fence that Alick helped his brothers to erect is still standing on 'Burnside'.
Alick enlisted in March 1915 and after training left Fremantle on the troopship 'Aeneas' for Gallipoli.
He then went to Cairo where he was in hospital with influenza. After he recovered, he went to France and was promoted to corporal in August 1916 and was made sergeant in August of that year.
Sergeant Alick George Robus Blechynden of 28 Battalion was killed in action by a shell while cleaning out an old German dug-out on 28 February 1917 near Warlencourt in France. He was 25.