Alexander Mountford
10 February 1898 — 15 September 1936
Chief P.O. Instructor Alexander Mountford (16‑18‑30)
Mountford was born in North Leith, Scotland on 10 February 1898. After a long career in the British Navy, he was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1927. In May 1934 he was appointed instructor in wireless telegraphy at Brisbane. He died in Rosemount Repatriation Hospital on 15 September 1936 following a short illness.