KILLEN, Ernest Loftus
| Service Number: | 774 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 15th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Bloomfield, Belfast, Ireland, April 1894 |
| Home Town: | Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural Causes, Raymond Terrace, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 15 December 1956 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-A18. 6 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 774, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 9 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 774, 5th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Itria embarkation_ship_number: A53 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 774, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Itria, Brisbane | |
| 22 Jul 1915: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 774, 15th Light Horse Regiment, Medically unfit |
Ernest Loftus Killen
Ernest is my Grandfather,he was born in Belfast Ireland in 1891 and grew up in 117 Eastbread St Belfast. At the age of 18 he came to Australia where he made his home in Queensland and went on to join the 5TH Light Horse Brigade on the 21-12-1914. Ernest moved to Newcastle where he married on the 17th Aprial 1920 and had two daughters. Ernest Passed away on the 13-12-1956 at Raymond Terrace N S W
Submitted 20 December 2014 by Barbara Godfrey
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell to Australia and New Zealand in WWI
A Forgotten Digger of The Great War and Sandgate Cemetery.
63 years ago, on the 15th December 1956, Private Ernest Loftus Killen, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, labourer from Harriet Street, Singleton, New South Wales and Belmont, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 62. PRESBYTERIAN-A18. 6.
Born at Bloomfield, Belfast, Ireland about 1894 to Samuel and Mary Killen of 117 East Break Street, Cornswater, Belfast, Ireland; husband of Mary Killen nee Kelly (married 1920, died?), Ernest enlisted December 1914 at Rockhampton, Queensland.
Mr Killen returned home medically unfit July 1915.
His name has been inscribed on the Nyngan & District War Memorial.
Many thanks to Faithe Jones for the notification that Ernest was resting in an unmarked grave, so I placed a cross adorned with poppies on the gravesite November 2019, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=422810#grave-photo-1
Lest We Forget.
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