MASON, Edward Isaac
| Service Number: | 993 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 1870 |
| Home Town: | Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Fremantle Grammar School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Flers, France, 21 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 993, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 993, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 993, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 24 Nov 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 993, 32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked from Fremantle for Adelaide SA on board HMAT Katuna | |
| 17 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 993, 32nd Infantry Battalion, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles per Transvylvania |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Edward Isaac Mason (Service No:993) enlisted in the AIF on 12 July 1915 and served with 32nd Infantry Battalion in Egypt and France. In July 1916 the 32nd Battalion was tasked with assaulting German positions at the Sugarloaf Salient - the Battle of Frmelles. Private Mason sustained shell wounds to both legs at Flers, and died in the ambulance en route to Boulogne. Private Mason was buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery.
Born in 1870 in Perth WA, Ted was ninth of ten children of Benjamin (Ben) Mason (b1828 in Devon, England) and Eliza Ellen Hamblin (b1828 in Berkshire, England). Ben had arrived in King George Sound in 1831 with his parents and siblings on board the Isabella - his father was Colour Sergeant with the 63rd Regiment. Eliza had arrived in the Swan River Colony in 1848 on board the Ranee and was a School Mistress at Perth Girls' School when she and Ben married in 1852. Ben started work as a Carpenter's Apprentice and was a General and Hardware Merchant in Perth and a Perth Councillor (1859 - 1866). Recognised as a pioneer of the timber industry in WA, Ben built and operated Timber Mills, and worked as a Civil Servant with the Public Works Department.
Ted was a Gold Miner and Mine Owner/Manager with his brothers at Abbotts north of Meekatharra, and the only Justice of the Peace in the Murchison District. Ted was forty five years of age when he enlisted - he lied about his age - and stated he was working as an Engine Driver in his Attestation Papers (NAA). In 1897 in Perth WA, Ted married May Elizabeth Collins (b1881 in Melbourne, Victoria). Following Ted's death, May returned to Melbourne where she remarried.
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