ESLER, Andrew
| Service Number: | 5476 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 March 1916, Dubbo, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Belfast, Co Antrim, Ireland, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Enmore, Inner West Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shearer |
| Died: | War Related Injuries, 1 February 1928, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemetery & Crematorium Zone A Presbyterian 5D 0104 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Mar 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 18th Infantry Battalion, Dubbo, NSW | |
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| 22 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 5476, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 5476, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
SICK SOLDIER'S MONEY
"Particularly Mean Theft"
COURT AT HOSPITAL
"It Is n particularly mean theft, from a bedridden soldier," said Mr. Giles Shaw, S.M., nt the Central Police Court yesterday, when looking over the facts of a case in which Samuel
Thomas Hall, aged 21, was charged with having stolen a wallet and £6 from Private Andrew Esler, a cot patient at the Randwick Military Hospital.
At the conclusion ot the police case, in which it was alleged that the accused went to the hospital, and after playing a game of cards with the prosecutor, left after taking the money and wallet from a locker. Sergeant Spyer, the police prosecutor intimated that Esler was unable to attend court, as he was suffering from a gunshot wound in the spine, and was paralysed from the hips down.
It was then decided to adjourn the case so us to enable the magistrate to hear Private Esler's evidence. Subsequently, the magistrate, deposition clerk, Sergt. Spyer, and the accused, visited the hospital. A type writer was procured, and one of the wards was temporarily converted into a police court. Convalescent patients were soon aware of the visit of the tribunal, and those unable to get out of bed, were informed from time to time as to how the case was going. After taking the patient's evidence, the magistrate motored back to the Central Police Court, where the accused, in defence, said that he was playing cards with Esler, and was sitting two or three feet away from the locker, with his back to it. He had no knowledge of the money or the wallet. Mr. Giles Shaw imposed a fine of £15, ln default three months hard labor.