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HIGHAM, Ernest Augustus
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 261 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, April 1892 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Shell wounds to chest, both thighs, left forearm and right hand, Villers Bretonneux, France, 27 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme Plot II, Row A, Grave 11 |
| Memorials: | Fremantle 849 Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 18 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 261, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 261, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 261, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 261, 11th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 15 Aug 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
| 1 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 4 Apr 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 26 Aug 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 12 Dec 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 26 Sep 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Third Ypres, Passchendaele Ridge, Shrapnel wound - head and left leg injury | |
| 26 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Villers-Bretonneux, Shell wounds to chest, thighs, left forearm and right hand (severe) | |
| 27 Apr 1918: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lieutenant, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Killed in action |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of John Joseph and Edith Elizabeth HIGHAM, of 57 John St., Fremantle, Western Australia.
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