Ernest James LOGAN

Badge Number: 80356
80356

LOGAN, Ernest James

Service Number: 127
Enlisted: 11 February 1915, at Keswick
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
Born: Parkside, South Australia, 1893
Home Town: Thebarton (Southwark), City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Steward
Died: Suicide, Maylands, South Australia, 17 May 1927
Cemetery: AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia
Section: LO, Road: 7N, Site No: 14
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World War 1 Service

11 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 127, 27th Infantry Battalion, at Keswick
31 May 1915: Involvement Private, 127, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
31 May 1915: Embarked Private, 127, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918: Involvement Sergeant, 127, 27th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Saint Ignatius' College

Ernest James Logan was born in the year 1893 in Parkside, South Australia. Before the war, he worked as both a steward and a driver. He worked as a steward. Logan had a fair complexion, dark eyes and dark brown hair and stood at 5.8 feet (178cm) tall with a weight of 144lbs (65kg). Ernest’s next of kin was his Aunt, Miss Edna Kelly. Both he and his aunt lived in Henley Park, West Adelaide, South Australia (modern-day Thebarton), and there is no mention of any other family members.

DURING THE WAR:
On the 11th of February 1915, at the age of 22, Ernest signed up at an enlistment office in Keswick, South Australia. Throughout the war, Ernest went AWL repeatedly. He was also hospitalised on several occasions, suffering from influenza and pyrexia (i.e. fever). He was transferred to England to recuperate in early July 1916 and never returned to the front, seeing out the war in various training units in England.

After returning, he married Eileen T. Logan and they remained together until he died. He died by a gunshot wound about 9 years after the war ended, most probably self-inflicted. He died on the 17th of May 1927 in Maylands and was buried in West Terrace Cemetery.

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