WARE, Ernest Ivan
| Service Number: | 6583 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1915, Melbourne, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, 25 October 1894 |
| Home Town: | Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Geelong Grammar School, Warrnambool Agricultural High School |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Pneumonia, 55th Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium, 13 February 1919, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
Charleroi Communal Cemetery C 4 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Warrnambool Agricultural High School "They Died For Us" Honour Roll, Warrnambool Agricultural High School Honor Roll, Warrnambool Soldiers' Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 6583, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Melbourne, Vic. | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 6583, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 6583, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Wiltshire, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Daryl Jones
Son of Lucy and John Ware, Weeripong, Warrnambool, Victoria
A postcard sent to Tim Ware’s parents, the characters involved are 6613 Sgt Richard Vincent McGinness seated, and 6583 Bdr Ernest Ivan ‘Tim’ Ware (both 4th Field Artillery Brigade standing. On the back of the card was a rather amusing message.
Tim had this photo made into a postcard as was the custom, on the back was written: “RV McGinness - had a tooth out the morning this was taken & RV had been to the dentist in the afternoon then went to the doctor the other day as he was feeling a bit off, the doctor told him he had a ‘dirty tongue’, RV went crook, said he had never sworn in his life!”
RV’s tooth: “The first night Bill and I got down to the wagon lines I damn near went mad with a toothache, so next morning RV and I went up to the dentist and had a tooth out each. A fellow called Derovan is the dentist for us chaps, a friend of Keiths, I got to know him in Melbourne before we left. When I went in to the surgery who should I see but Doug London making teeth (8643 Pte Douglas Westwood London, 6th Field Ambulance, son of Harry and Fanny London, of Warrnambool), I got into the chair, and Derovan advised me to have the tooth out, and after injecting cocaine into my jaw was picking out a strong pair of tongs (you know how one feels) when a fellow that was assisting there shoves his head over my shoulder and asks, “How would you like a grilled steak at Scott’s”, I felt like giving him a dirty left, the brute, but let him off, he told me afterwards that he used to be a waiter there and remembered me.” (Derovan: Theodore Alexander Deravin, a Lieutenant in the Dentistry Corps (4th FAB Headquarters - Hon Lt TA Deravin, of Kew). Born Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand, next of kin - father, JA De Ravin, Stock Exchange Club, Collins Street, Melbourne).
WARE.- On the 13th February, 1919, at 55th Casualty Clearing Station, E. J. (Tim) Ware, younger son of John and Lucy Ware, Warrnambool.
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