Hyman Hirch Norman ELLISON

ELLISON, Hyman Hirch Norman

Service Number: 29267
Enlisted: 1 August 1916, Sydney, New South Wales
Last Rank: Corporal
Last Unit: 103rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery
Born: Surry Hills, New South Wales, 24 September 1895
Home Town: Mosman, Municipality of Mosman, New South Wales
Schooling: Mosman Superior Public School
Occupation: Cadet journalist
Died: Natural causes, Sydney, 31 January 1971, aged 75 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service
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World War 1 Service

1 Aug 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 29267, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, Sydney, New South Wales
30 Sep 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, 29267, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: ''
30 Sep 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Gunner, 29267, Australian Field Artillery - 116th to 120th Howitzer Batteries: AIF, HMAT Aeneas, Sydney
18 Sep 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 29267, 103rd Field Artillery (Howitzer) Battery

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Hyman Hirch Norman ELLISON was born on 24th September, 1895 in Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW

His parents were Joseph ELLISON and Caroline Jane GARKENKEW

He married Leah Ruta COHEN on 11th April, 1922 in The Great Synagogue, Sydney

Hyman died on 31st January, 1971 in Sydney - burial place unknown

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Eldest son of Mr. Joseph Elliosn, as born at Moore Park in 1895, and educated at the Mosman Superior Public School.   Entering the clerical department of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1912 he became a cadet on the reporting staff two years later.

Enlisting in June, 1916, as a Gunner in the 117th Howitzer Battery, he went to France, where he was transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, and was in due course promoted to the rank of Corporal.  He was constantly in action on the Somme, at Messines, on the Yser Canal, and at Ypres, until severley wounded in the right leg in the fighting around Passchendaele on September 30, 1917.  He was in hospital in England for five months, and was then pronounced unfit for further active service.

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