WILSON, Frederick Ernest
| Service Number: | 1193 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 September 1914, Hastings, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moorooduc, Victoria, 28 August 1889 |
| Home Town: | Mornington, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Hastings State School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds (received at Gallipoli), Egypt, 3 May 1915, aged 25 years |
| Cemetery: |
Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt Plot C, Grave 179, Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Hastings War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1193, Hastings, Victoria | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1193, 5th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1193, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1193, 5th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Bayonet wound (stomach) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Michael Wilson
Frederick Ernest Wilson was known as Ern, he was the 3rd son of William McDonald Wilson and Emily Matilda (Horton) and was born on the pastoral property 'Tuerong' on Victoria's Mornington Peninsular.
He enlisted in the All Victorian 2nd Brigade just 2 weeks after the Declaration of War in August 1914. Assigned to the 5th Battalion, Ern's Brigade sailed just 2 months later and rendezvoused in Albany Harbour, Western Australia with hundreds of other troopships that comprised the 1st Division AIF. They arrived in Egypt in December where they commenced training for the Gallipoli Campaign.
During the assault on what was to become ANZAC Cove on 25th April 1915, he received bayonet wounds to the stomach and was transferred to the Alexandria Hospital, where he died 8 days later.
He is buried in the Chatby Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Plot C, Grave 179.
In Australia, his name is recorded on the Roll of Honour in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and on a memorial plinth in the town of Hastings in Victoria.
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