KIDD, Ernest
| Service Number: | 251 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glenlyon, Victoria, Australia, 12 January 1891 |
| Home Town: | Prahran, Stonnington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Salesman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Hill 60, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 27 August 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC No actual grave. Memorialised on panel 58 at Lone Pine, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 251, 17th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 251, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney |
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In his will written on 12 Aug 1915 whilst he was in Heliopolis, Egypt, Ernest bequeathed his possessions to his aunt, Susan Fergusson Shellard (nee Kidd).
After his death there are letters in his war records disputing who were his next of kin and who were entitled to his effects and medals. His enlistment form simply gives his next of kin as Mrs Kidd, Prahan.
Official War Diary for 17th Battalion: 27 - 28 August 1915.
"A" Company took part in attack on Hill 60. Casualties: Lieutenant F Gombert, killed.
Lieutenant NE Vye, severely wounded.
Lieutenant RC Anderson, severely wounded.
Other ranks killed: 3; wounded: 23; missing: 37.
Letter from his war record date 1 Oct 1920:
From: A. P. M. 3rd M. D.
To: A. A. G. 3rd M. D.
re the late No. 251 Pte. E. Kidd, 17th Battn.
Ernest Kidd was the son of George Chisolm KIDD and Sophia Louise WOODWARD, born 11-1-1891.
Parents married 16-11-1893. Sister, Florence May KIDD, born 1894. Father was killed in 1897, when boy was cared for by paternal grandfather until the latter died in 1906. He then returned to his mother's care; though for a period of 6 months he lived with his father's sister, and her husband, Mr Shellard.
It would appear that effects should go firstly to deceased's mother (Mrs Rider), or secondly to his sister Miss F. M. KIDD.
Mrs Rider's present address is 12 Garden Street, South Yarra, also Miss F. M. Kidd.
J Whitelaw
A/Provost Marshal , 3rd M. D.
His medals were sent to his mother on 11 Oct 1920.