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Embarkation Roll (www.awm.gov.au) misspells Surname LUXMORE - Birth certificate and Service Record (recordsearch.naa.gov.au) spell Surname as LUXMOORE

In 1921 he was the Master of the Adelaide Hunt Club.

"...Lieutenant Ernest Marshall Luxmoore, 9th Light Horse Regiment who was a 31 year old shipping clerk when he was commissioned on 26 May 1915. He embarked for overseas with the 7th Reinforcements from Adelaide on 24 June 1915 aboard HMAT Kanowna and saw action at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. He was wounded in action on 3 May 1918 and received a Military Cross (MC) for continuous gallantry and devotion to duty during operations between 30 April and 4 May 1918 near Es Salt in the Jordan Valley, 23 kilometres west of Amman, Jordan. Captain Luxmoore recovered from his wounds and arrived back in Australia on 26 November 1919..." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

Ernest Marshall Luxmoore was born on the nineteenth of July 1883, in Brighton south Australia.  Ernest was the sixth child of his parents Margaret Hay and John Henry Luxmoore who were married on the tenth of November 1870. Ernest had eight siblings, four sisters Winfred Agnes Luxmoore, Margret Amy Luxmoore, Mary hay Luxmoore and Rachael May Luxmoore. Along with 4 brothers Edgar Alexander Luxmoore, John Henry Luxmoore and two unknown brothers. Many of his siblings unfortunately died during childhood. Ernest attended Saint Peters College for his schooling; he was awarded for his academic achievements having his name on the 1914-1918 honour board. Before enlisting into the war, Ernest was a shipping clerk.

Ernest enlisted with the with the 9th Light Horse Regiment 26 of April 1915 as a Lieutenant. He embarked on the H.M.A.T A61 Kanowna on the 24 June 1915. Ernest arrived in Heliopolis Egypt on the 31 of July 1915, where he then camped in Heliopolis Racecourse.

On the 19 of October 1915 Ernest left Heliopolis to go to Gallipoli. He travelled through Alexandria Egypt and arrived in Lemnos (Greece) he then marched to Canterbury Slopes, Gallipoli on the 24 of October. Six weeks after arriving he was treated on the hospital ship H.M.H.S Dunluce Castle sailing to Lemnos. On the 21 December left the hospital and rejoined the regiment, which returned to Heliopolis via Alexandria and went back to camp at the Racecourse.

On the 9 January 1916 Ernest left camp to arrive at number 4 Auxiliary Hospital due to mumps, returning 3 weeks later. Ernest was then promoted to first Lieutenant by Brigadier General J.M Antill CB. The brigade left to go to Serapeum on the Suez Canal, not letting the Turks advance into Egypt. Ernest was stationed in Serapeum for a few months before heading to Zetian school. On the 27 of July 1916 he moved to new camp at Bally Bunion. Ernest participated in the battle of Romani where his unit captured 108 Turkish prisoners through the 3rd to 5th of August.

On the 21st of December 1916 Ernest and his troops entered El Arish, a large village on the coastal route across the Sinai desert, it was under Turkish rule for two years but was then captured by the British on this day.

From late January 1917 till Late February Ernest was at Cavalry school. On the 19 of April Ernest a bullet penetrated his Haversack (Bag) and his gas mask, fortunately he was uninjured. On the 29th June 1917 Ernest was promoted to Captain. After the Gaza battles, he was ill with dysentery and arrived at hospital 3rd November where he remained for a few weeks.

From April thirtieth through to the fourth of May 1918, Ernest was involved in the Es Salt raid and earned a Military Cross. During the raid, Ernest was hit by a bullet from a machine gun in the thigh.

Ernest contracted diphtheria mid-May 1918 and wasn’t cleared until 30 June with a further 13 days of rest camp. On July 28th he was back in action at Auja. Sickness returned in the form of malignant malaria on August 9th and he travelled for treatment – 3rd Field Ambulance to ANZAC Clearing Station, Jericho, Jerusalem, Gaza, Kanara and finally the 71st General Hospital in Cairo.  He was discharged from hospital on September 22nd.

On 13 October 1918, Ernest records in his diary that hostilities ceased with Turkey at noon. Writing that he was overjoyed. In March 1919 he was part of Australian forces involved in suppressing the Egyptian revolution in Zagazig. On the 2nd of June 1919, he commences his travel to London, arriving on the 18th of June. On the tenth of July 1919, Ernest was presented with the Military Cross by King George V at Buckingham Palace. On the 26th of November 1919 he finally returned home to Glenelg.

During the war Ernest wrote in his diaries about Lance Hargrave, a fellow soldier in the ninth Lighthorse regiment and school fellow, “Little Hargrave and I curled up with our heads under our arms and just waited to be buried alive”. Ernest wrote letters to Lance Hardgrave’s sister Eileen during the war and met her in London on the 24th June 1919. She saw him off on the eighteenth of October 1919 on HMAS Morea headed for Fremantle. Once reunited in Adelaide, they were married on nineth of December 1920. On the 27th November 1921 twin girls were born, Mary Marshall and Joyce Marshall. Once home, Ernest took up the job of a stock clerk and resumed his role as the Master of the Adelaide Hunt Club.

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