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Alfred Shout
Alfred John Shout VC, MC (8 August 1882 – 11 August 1915) was a New Zealand-born Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. In 1915, he was awarded the Military Cross during the landing at Anzac Cove in April and received the Victoria Cross posthumously for his actions during the Battle of Lone Pine in August. Shout was also Mentioned in Despatches, making him the most highly decorated soldier of the Australian Imperial Force during the Gallipoli Campaign.
==Early life==
Alfred John Shout was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 8 August 1882.〔There is discrepancy among the sources regarding Shout's date of birth. , in Shout's ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' entry, states it to be 7 August 1881. also gives 7 August, though lists the year to have been 1882. Shout's Australian Imperial Force service file, however, records it to be 8 August 1882, which is the date given in , , and . As the service record is an official government file and the majority of scholars record the date it gives, 8 August 1882 is the date used in this article.〕 He was the eldest of nine children to an English-born father, John Richard Shout, and Irish mother, Agnes Mary. Information on Alfred Shout's early life is rather scant, and the details differ between sources. However, it is believed he was privately educated in his youth and, around 1900, he joined a New Zealand Army contingent for service in the Second Boer War.〔 On arrival in South Africa, he enlisted in the newly raised Border Horse on 17 February 1900. The Border Horse was an irregular colonial force formed in eastern Cape Colony, and Shout was allotted to the unit's No. 1 Company with the service number 9216. Shout served at Wittebergen, Transvaal and Cape Colony with the Border Horse and was twice wounded,〔 including once in the chest. On 29 January 1901, Shout, then a lance corporal, was engaged in action with his unit at Thabaksberg. Throughout the battle, he "assisted greatly" in maintaining the position of his men, and at one stage ventured out under heavy rifle fire to retrieve a wounded man, bringing him back to a place of safety. As a result of his "great courage" in this action, Shout was Mentioned in Despatches.〔 He was promoted to sergeant on 7 May 1901, and discharged from the Border Horse 16 days later.〔 He then joined the Stellenbosch District Mounted Troop and later saw service with the Cape Colonial Forces.〔〔 Having "served with distinction" during his time in South Africa, Shout discharged from service in 1902.〔
Shout decided to remain in South Africa after his discharge and, in 1903, enlisted in the South African Army as a sergeant in Prince Alfred's Own Cape Field Artillery.〔〔〔 While in Cape Town, Shout married Rose Alice Howe, an Australian woman, in 1905; the couple had daughter Florence Agnes Maud on 11 June that year.〔〔 In 1907, the Shout family emigrated to Australia, settling in the Sydney suburb of Darlington. Here, Shout gained employment as a carpenter and joiner at Resch's Brewery.〔〔 He maintained his interest in the military, immediately joining the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Citizens Military Force (CMF) and becoming a regular visitor of the Randwick rifle range, where he gained a reputation as an excellent shot with a rifle.〔〔〔 A foundation member of the 29th Infantry Club, Shout was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the CMF on 16 June 1914.〔〔
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