Samuel Ernest PORTER

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PORTER, Samuel Ernest

Service Number:	12047
Enlisted:	28 May 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Field Ambulance
Born:	Maitland, New South Wales,, Australia, 22 March 1883
Home Town:	East Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Cleveland Street Superior Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Railway storeman
Died:	Killed in action, France, 8 April 1917, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery Plot II, Row D, Grave No. 1.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket Men of the Railways & Tramways Store Branch Roll of Valour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Manly War Memorial NSW, Townsville 9th Field Ambulance Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

28 May 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 12047, 9th Field Ambulance
11 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 12047, 9th Field Ambulance, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
11 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 12047, 9th Field Ambulance, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney

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Biography contributed by John Oakes

Samuel Ernest PORTER (Service Number 12047) was born on 22nd March 1883 at Maitland. He began working for the NSW Government Railways in the Stores Branch as a Store Boy at Eveleigh on 6th November 1900. He became a fully-fledged Storeman on 1st July 1907. On 29th August 1912 he passed a clerical examination and became a Storekeeper on 29tth January 1913, and Assistant Storeman three months later.

He was released from duty to join the Expeditionary Forces on 28th May 1915 and enlisted the same day at Liverpool. Unmarried, he nominated his eldest brother, Albert, as his next of kin. He was allotted to the 9th Field Ambulance. He embarked HMAT ‘Argyllshire’ at Sydney on 11th May 1916 and reached Plymouth (Englland) on 10th July.

After four months in England he proceeded overseas through Southampton on 23rd November.

He was killed in action on 8th April 1917. He was buried in the Pont Du Nieppe Communal Cemetery 1¼ miles NW of Armentières.

Driver K. Younger (12100) reported:

‘Porter had been up with rations to a place between Charing Cross and the Brewery and on returning a German shell caught the tail of the wagon and killed Porter. He was almost unrecognisable. Sgt. Dyer and Driver J. Bridson were killed with him. All three were buried together in the Pont du Nieppe Cemetery. The graves were fenced off separately and crosses were put up.’

- based on the Ausralian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.

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