Just 18 years of age when he enlisted in January 1916, Alfred Harre played his football with Granville Rechabites. A Londoner by birth, Harre was living in Granville and worked as a clerk.
Serving with the 30th Battalion he was badly wounded in the thigh in France in October 1916. When he returned to the front line it was with 8th Australian Machine Gun Company. Harre managed to fit in a wedding to Winifred while in London before heading back to the front. He was badly gassed in June 1918 and spent nearly two months recovering.
Harre returned to Australia with his wife in 1920.