Next of Kin plaque : Lance Corporal A F J Sullivan, 5 Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'ALBERT FREDERICK JOHN SULLIVAN'.

Born at Moolort, Victoria in 1900, Albert Frederick John Sullivan claimed to be a 19 year old labourer when he enlisted in the AIF on 1 December 1915. Assigned as a private, service number 4937, to the 15th reinforcements for the 5th Battalion, Sullivan left Melbourne aboard the troopship HMAT A18 Wiltshire on 7 March 1916. According to his mother, Julia Hannah Snackenberg, he celebrated his sixteenth birthday on the troopship.
Sullivan took part in the battle of Pozieres before being evacuated to England with trench fever at the end of July. He remained in hospital until November and then undertook further training in England before returning to his battalion in April 1917. Two months later he was evacuated with trench feet, returning to the battalion in February 1918. Sullivan was promoted to lance corporal at the beginning of June. He was killed in action south east of Meteren on 7 July and is buried at La Kreule Military Cemetery at Hazebrouck in France. He was eighteen.

Sullivan's brother, Archibald Clarence Sullivan, also served, as did four of his uncles: Daniel, James and Ernest Sullivan, and Herbert Pollock. All survived the war.

This commemorative plaque was sent to Sullivan's mother in November 1922.