ELLIS, Sydney Edmund
| Service Number: | 4825 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 October 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Machine Gun Company |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, April 1890 |
| Home Town: | South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Zonnebeke, Belgium, 22 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium Plot XVIII, Row C, Grave No. 3 |
| Memorials: | Annerley Stephens Shire Council Residents Honour Board 1, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Oct 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4825, 31st Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 4825, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 4825, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 17 Oct 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 4th Machine Gun Company |
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From How We Served
4825 Private Sydney Edmond Ellis was originally from Collingwood, Victoria, but had relocated to Brisbane, Queensland, where he was employed as a labourer. Sydney was a married man with four children when he enlisted for War Service on the 24th of October 1916.
Allocated to reinforcements for the 31st Battalion, 1st AIF, Sydney departed Australia bound for England and further training on the 7th of Feburary,1917.
By the 11th of October, Sydney had arrived in France and was transferred over to the 4th Machine Gun Company with which he would enter the trenches with.
Sydney's Unit was committed to the 'Third Battle of Ypres', and whilst in the vicinity of ANZAC Ridge he was 'Killed in Action' by shellfire on the 22nd of October 1917 at the age of 28.
Sydney was hastily buried in the field near where he had died and following the end of the War, Sydney's place of burial was located by the Graves Registration Unit, and after being exhumed, Sydney was officially reinterred within the Hooge Crater Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium.
Following Sydney's death, his mother had her son's supreme sacrifice made during 'The Great War' privately commemorated at the Ellis family's collective burial site within Kew (Boroondara) General Cemetery, Victoria.
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