ELLISON, Hyman Hirch Norman
| Service Number: | 29267 |
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| 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 |
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 Daryl 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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