Ernest Edward FLINT

Ernest Edward FLINT Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

FLINT, Ernest Edward

Service Numbers:	W54698, WX40408
Enlisted:	16 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Victoria Park, Perth, Western Australia, 29 March 1913
Home Town:	Victoria Park, Victoria Park, Western Australia
Schooling:	East Victoria Park State School, Perth, Western Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 11 June 1993, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Memorials:

World War 2 Service

16 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W54698
18 Aug 1943:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, W54698
19 Aug 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX40408
20 Dec 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, WX40408

Help us honour Ernest Edward Flint's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

The eldest of two brothers who served in WWII, Private Ernest Edward Flint (Service Nos:W54698/WX40408) served with 5th Motor Ambulance Convoy (MAC) as a Driver, initially in the ACMF (16 March 1942 - 18 August 1943). On 19 August 1943, Private Flint transferred to the AIF, and was attached to 5th Motor Ambulance Convoy (MAC) at Discharge on 20 December 1945.

Ernest was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1913, eldest of two children (sons) of Ernest Edwin Flint (b1883 in Bendigo, Victoria) and Margaret Mary Oliphant Jack (b1881 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland) - Margaret immigrated in 1909, arriving in Fremantle on board the Mongolia. Ernest Snr had worked in Gwalia and Kalgoorlie as a Miner and Labourer, and in 1911 he and Margaret married in Perth, where they settled and raised their sons. Ernest Snr worked as a Carrier before enlisting in the AIF in 1915 (Corporal; Service No:1571) and returned to Perth following his Discharge. Ernest Snr was a Carrier and Storeman in 1923 when he left Margaret and their children and moved to Adelaide.

Ernest worked as a Clerk and Greengrocer in Perth where, in 1938, he married his first wife Doris Eva Leighton (b1918 in Perth, Western Australia). Ernest was Discharged from the Army in December 1945, and he and Doris lived in Perth, where they raised their family and Ernest was a Clerk. Following their separation in the late 1950s, Ernest worked as a Motor Driver and in the early 1970s remarried to Dorothea Muriel Reynolds (b1922). Ernest and Dorothea settled in Bentley in Perth and Ernest worked as a Motor Driver until retirement. Ernest died in 1993 and Dorothea in 2002.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia