MAFFESONI, Ernest
| Service Number: | 419 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 September 1914, Enlisted at Rosehill. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Avenel, Victoria, Australia, September 1891 |
| Home Town: | Chiltern, Indigo, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 7 August 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Gallipoli.Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Chiltern War Memorial Gates, Euroa Telegraph Park, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Rutherglen War Memorial, Shire of Chiltern Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 419, 13th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Rosehill. | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 419, 13th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 419, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Ernest Maffesoni was born at Longwood, Victoria about September 1891. When he enlisted at Rosehill on 26th September 1914 he gave his father, John (Gion) Maffesoni of Chiltern Valley, Victoria as his next of kin, as did all four brothers. He was allotted to the 13th Australian Infantry Battalion. He embarked HMAT ‘Ulysses’ at Melbourne on 22nd December 1914. The ship reached Egypt in the early months of 1915 and Maffesoni underwent further training there. On 12th April he embarked at Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli, where, according to his brother Andrew in 1967, he landed on Anzac Day. He was reported wounded on 7 August during the Battle of Lone Pine and by 25th September ‘Nothing further [was] known in Battalion.’ Eventually a Court of Enquiry sitting in France on 6th April 1916 – eight months later – ruled that he had died in August. Despite the uncertainty, Maffesoni’s body had been recovered and buried in a known grave. Pte P Adams (1311) reported:
‘Witness states, that, although he did not see Maffesoni killed, stretcher bearer told him that Maffesoni was shot in the chest. This occurred on the left in the advance at Anzac.’
After the war the approximate location of the grave was identified as being within the Embarkation Pier Cemetery, Gallipoli and is now marked as ‘Believed to be buried in this Cemetery.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Cenral Station Honour Board.
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