DELO, Ernest Phillip Alston
| Service Number: | 4697 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 3 December 1884 |
| Home Town: | Henley Beach , City of Charles Sturt / Henley and Grange, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Norwood Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Iron Moulder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 October 1918, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Norwood Primary School Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4697, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 11 Apr 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4697, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Apr 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4697, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Adelaide | |
| 10 Jun 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, "Peaceful Penetration - Low-Cost, High-Gain Tactics on the Western Front", ...south of Morlancourt, while acting as a stretcher bearer... Worked tirelessly... regardless of personal risk.. Carrying wounded | |
| 3 Oct 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4697, 27th Infantry Battalion, "The Last Hundred Days", --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4697 awm_unit: 27 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1918-10-03 |
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Ernest Phillip Alston DELO was born on 3rd December, 1884 in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales
His parents were Joshua Harris DELO and Emily Mary Elizabeth ALSTON who married in New Zealand in 1880 -
Ernest married Helena Annie KAMM on 16th September, 1907 at the Holy Trinity Vestry, Adelaide, South Australia
Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Ernest Phillip Alston Delo was born on the 3rd of December 1884 in Balmain, Sydney. His parents were Joshua Harris Delo and Emily Mary Elizabeth Alston. He had a younger brother named John Alfred Alston Delo, who also served during the war as a gunner, and died in January 1916. He attended Norwood Public School in Adelaide. On the 16th of September 1907 he married Helena Annie Kamm at the Holy Trinity Vestry in Adelaide, South Australia. In November 1915 he was fined for travelling on a train without a ticket. He worked as an Iron moulder in Glanville, Adelaide.
At 31, he enlisted in the army on the 21st of January 1916, and embarked on the 11th of April on the HMAT Aeneas later that year. He enlisted as a private and was assigned to the 27th infantry battalion and given the service number 4697. In January 1917 he was admitted to a hospital for influenza in Rouen, France. Throughout the war he was often transferred to different battalions, going to the 70th battalion twice, and the 69th draft battalion once, but he always went back to the 27th battalion.
On the 10th of June 1918 he participated in the third battle of Morlancourt, where he worked as a stretcher bearer, the carry back was over a mile, and the carry back was over a mile, all while he was under a constant barrage of shellfire. He was awarded a Military Medal one month later.
In August 1918 he was wounded in action but remained on duty. On the 6th of September 1918 he was promoted to Lance Corporal. Less than a month later he was killed in action somewhere in France on the 3rd of October 1918.
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