MUSGRAVE, Aubry Ernest
| Service Number: | 173 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 September 1914, 4 years 3rd Infantry Bn |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 15th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, September 1888 |
| Home Town: | Bathurst, Bathurst Regional, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor mechanic |
| Died: | 30 January 1968, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Wellington General Cemetery, NSW |
| Memorials: | Bathurst Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 173, 15th Infantry Battalion, 4 years 3rd Infantry Bn | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Corporal, 173, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Corporal, 173, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 19 Jul 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 173, 15th Infantry Battalion, 1st MD, wounded Gallipoli GSW write and hip |
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From Gallipoli, 1915
Cpl. Aubry Ernest Musgrave 173, 15th Battalion Australian Infantry, wrote to his mother in Bathurst, Queensland, from Aerodrome Camp, Heliopolis, on 4th April 1915.
“When last I wrote you I was in hospital at Heliopolis with laryingitis, another name for sore throat. I have now been out and about for the past three weeks. You get well looked after here when sick, and one is sent to the hospital even for a slight cold. We are expecting to leave here any minute and always ready to get away at 15 minutes' notice. We have done a lot of training and 20 miles a day on the desert is nothing to us. When we are in full marching order our clothes and equipment weigh 61lbs. 11¼oz., so you see we have a fair load to carry. The general in command of the forces in Egypt said our brigade was the most efficient and best equipped brigade in Egypt, and our battalion, the 15th, the crack battalion of the brigade.
This is a lot to say considering that there are a couple of hundred of thousand troops in Egypt...
“This is Easter Sunday and our last Sunday in Egypt. We are leaving here on Tuesday to have a cut at the Turks.” [1]
A former motor mechanic, Musgrave was wounded on 25th May and again on 27th August 1915. He returned to Australia, leaving England aboard the 'Thermistocles' on 8th May 1916.
[1] 'National Advocate' (Bathurst, New South Wales), 13th May 1915.
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