Otto Lessing EVERS

EVERS, Otto Lessing

Service Number: 1544
Enlisted: 5 June 1915, Atherton, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 26th Infantry Battalion
Born: Marrickville, New South Wales, 1889
Home Town: Yungaburra, Tablelands, Queensland
Schooling: Fort Street Public School, Sydney
Occupation: Auctioneer/Commission agent
Died: Died of Illness (Smallpox), Egypt, 15 May 1916
Cemetery: Cairo War Memorial Cemetery
Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt
Memorials: Atherton War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Malanda Eacham Memorial Gates, Richmond University of Western Sydney WW1 Memorial
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World War 1 Service

5 Jun 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1544, 26th Infantry Battalion, Atherton, Queensland
29 Jun 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1544, 26th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
29 Jun 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1544, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane
4 Sep 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1544, 26th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli

Otto Lessing Evers

Born in Marrickville, Sydney in 1890, to Frederick and Emily, Otto Lessing Evers was sixteen when he arrived to undertake the Piggery and Dairy Certificates at HAC in February 1906. He was awarded the Piggery Certificate in June 1907 and the Dairy
Certificate with Cheesemaking in December 1907 and left the College on 7 January
1908. Otto never knew his father Frederick, as he had died from malaria in 1891 while
captaining a trading vessel in the Solomon Islands.
Shortly after leaving the College, Evers was in the Illawarra, south of Sydney,
engaged in dairy herd testing, and in 1914 he started a business at Yungaburra on the
Atherton Tableland inland from Cairns, Queensland (Qld), as an auctioneer and commission agent. He soon decided he’d also breed pigs.
On 8 August 1914, just four days after war was declared, he embarked from Cairns on
the Kanowna, for Garrison Duty on Thursday Island off the tip of Cape York, Qld. Kanowna, for Garrison Duty on Thursday Island off the tip of Cape York, Qld. On
the fourteenth he joined the 2nd Btn of the AN&MEF (Australian Naval & Military
Expeditionary Force) and embarked from there two days later bound for German New
Guinea. He served until 18 September when he was disembarked at Townsville, Qld.
Evers then enlisted with the 26th Btn on 6 May 1915 and embarked for Gallipoli on 4
September 1915, was admitted to hospital on Mudros (now Moudros) 29 December
and invalided to Cairo where he later died of smallpox on 15 May 1916 aged 26. He is
buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt.
Courtesy of The Western Sydney Education Australia.

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Otto was also a member of the Yungaburra Rifle Club which was mobilised wit the Kennedy Regeiment to garrison Thursday Island and take German New Guinea.  He was one of the "Dirty 500" who were returned to Australia before taking part in the action to take German New Guinea.