Ernest Harold (Ern ) MACK

MACK, Ernest Harold

Service Number: 66
Enlisted: 21 September 1914, A Squadron
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 8th Light Horse Regiment
Born: Gnarkeet, Victoria, Australia, 21 March 1886
Home Town: Lismore, Corangamite, Victoria
Schooling: Geelong College, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Wounds, NZ Field Ambulance, Egypt, 23 December 1916, aged 30 years
Cemetery: Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Row F, Grave 164 Buried by Chaplain Capt Williams NZ Forces
Memorials: Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour
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World War 1 Service

21 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron
1 Jan 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 8th Light Horse Regiment
25 Feb 1915: Involvement Lance Corporal, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: ''
25 Feb 1915: Embarked Lance Corporal, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Melbourne
22 May 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli
7 Aug 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Promoted 2nd Lieutenant in the Field ANZAC
30 Aug 1915: Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Evacuated Post Battle for the Nek with Enteric Fever to England for Treatment
7 Mar 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Promoted to Substantive Rank of Lieutenant (Troop Commander) On reorganisation of Unit
23 Dec 1916: Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 66, 8th Light Horse Regiment, Struck off Strength Died of Wounds received in Action GSW Thigh Battle of Magdabah Sinai
23 Dec 1916: Involvement Lieutenant, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Lieutenant awm_died_date: 1916-12-23

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gallipoli, 1915
 
Lieut. Ernest 'Ernie' Harold Mack #66,
8th (Victoria) Light Horse.

He would be slightly wounded - concussion- on the 7th. It was he said "a marvellous escape" as a black cricket ball bomb exploded close to his leg, "the concussion was so great that it turned me completely over and the only thing I had to show for it was a few ragged tears in my uniform."

Dysentery would get him, like so many others and he ended up convalescing in England. When he rejoined his unit in March 1916, they were based in Egypt, part of the newly formed Anzac Mounted Division.

He was mortally wounded on 23rd December 1916 during the Battle of Magdhaba, on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt. Admitted to the New Zealand Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance with GSW's to the thigh, he succumbed to his wounds later that day. He was 29.
Today, he is commemorated at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt

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