FERGUSSON, Edward James
| Service Number: | 1019 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1914, Original of F Company |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Ashfield, Ashfield, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Crows Nest Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Motor engineer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Baby 700 Cemetery, Anzac Baby 700 Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crow's Nest Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1019, 1st Infantry Battalion, Original of F Company | |
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| 18 Oct 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 1019, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Oct 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 1019, 1st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Sydney | |
| 2 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Edward went missing at the Landing at Anzac, probably on the 25 April 1915 as his remains were found by the Graves Exhumation people in 1922 in or near the Baby 700 Cemetery where they were interred. He was identified by his identity disc, badge and his numerals. These items were returned to his father in June 1922.
In July 1920 a newspaper report announced -‘the curious discovery’ of a cemetery constructed by the Turks during the earliest days on Gallipoli.
‘It consisted of wholly unsuspected graves of Anzacs and a few British Navy men. The cemetery is 300 yards to the east of Lone Pine and overlooks Legge’s Valley. It was first located during Captain CEW Bean’s last Gallipoli tour, and hitherto had been regarded as purely a Turkish cemetery, as it was far beyond the Anzac lines.
The cemetery contains 50 bodies of the Anzac’s bravest men, who evidently participated in the most forward fighting immediately after the landing. The discs found in the graves enabled identification to be made in almost every case, and the discovery shows the fate of men who were hitherto regarded as missing’.
Edwards’s older brother, Lieutenant Herbert Hilton Fergusson, 3rd Battalion AIF was killed in action 9th August 1918, age 27.
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