Ernest Garner Shipway MERRIMAN

MERRIMAN, Ernest Garner Shipway

    Service Number: 2410
    Enlisted: 22 July 1915, Liverpool, NSW
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 20th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Yass, NSW, 1886
    Home Town: Cumnock, Cabonne, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, France, Victoria, Australia, 5 May 1916
    Cemetery: Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier
    IV C 25, Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Obley War Memorial
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    World War 1 Service

    22 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2410, 20th Infantry Battalion, Liverpool, NSW
    6 Sep 1915: Involvement Private, 2410, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
    6 Sep 1915: Embarked Private, 2410, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Sydney

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    Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

    Son of John and Eliza Merriman, Cumnock via Molong, New South Wales

    PRIVATE ERNEST MERRIMAN,
    Son of Mrs. J. Merriman, of Cumnock, who.has been killed in action in France. He was 25 years of age, and before enlistment was engaged in farming in the Yeoval district. He was a prominent district athlete, and a sturdy specimen of Australia's ' farmer-soldiers.

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