MOORHOUSE, Ernest William
| Service Number: | 93 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia , 14 July 1892 |
| Home Town: | Fremantle, Fremantle, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Fremantle Boy's School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Bloody Angle, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 2 May 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Fremantle 849 Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 93, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 93, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 93, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Miles and Henrietta Ethel MOORHOUSE, Finnerty Street, Fremantle, Western Australia
Biography contributed by Ian James Samuel McNamara
Ernest William Moorhouse was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 14 July 1892, he was the second of six children born to Miles and Henrietta, nee Richardson. The family arrived in WA at Fremantle on the 20thJanuary 1902 aboard the Huddart Parker Ltd. Ship "Anglian". The manifest said only 3 children, but all five children came with their parents. The ship left from Sydney, via Melbourne. They came as Saloon passengers.
Miles was an ordained minister who’d moved into teaching. He taught at country towns. In April 1902 he was head teacher at Boranup, November 1903, Tipperary, near York, 1906 Burgess Siding also near York, 1907 Jandakot, 1909 Bulong, 1910 Kanowna.
Ernest was a talented student and, while at Tipperary in 1906, received a £10 bursary. Ernest and his older brother Harry enjoyed cricket and at every school they attended they were part of the cricket team.
In 1908 Miles Moorhouse bought a house in Finnerty Street Fremantle and called it ‘Apsley’. The house was built about 1901, by Thomas John Gallagher, a Fremantle Prison Warder. Miles owned the house until about 1945, when it became a boarding house and was much altered, mainly by additions to the main house. In 1995 the house was extensively altered and modernised. The original house was built of limestone and bricks. Miles retired from teaching in 1916 and died on 19th July 1926.
Ernest was active in the Presbyterian church, teaching Sunday School and was on the Management Board of the East Fremantle Presbyterian Church. Ernest completed his schooling at Fremantle Boys’ School.
Afterwards he trained as a clerk and was employed as the paymaster at the shipping company McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd. He also served two years in the citizen forces with the 11th Australian Infantry Rifles.
On the 10 September 1914 Ernest enlisted in the AIF. Only a week before on the 3 September the 16th Battalion was created. Eventually seven other staff members from the firm that Ernest worked at also enlisted. Only two, George Davidson and Tom Elder, returned home, the rest were killed during the war.
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