DRINKWATER, Ernest
| Service Number: | 10147 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 September 1915, 5th Infantry |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 5th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Waratah, New South Wales, 26 March 1898 |
| Home Town: | Crookwell, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Waratah Superior Public School, NSW |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Lyons Vale, Crookwell, New South Wales, 4 April 1988, aged 90 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-J Com. 70. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 10147, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , 5th Infantry | |
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| 17 Dec 1915: | Involvement Gunner, 10147, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Dec 1915: | Embarked Gunner, 10147, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , HMAT Berrima, Sydney | |
| 4 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 10147, 5th Field Artillery Brigade , 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
A Forgotten Digger who served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
36 years ago today, on the 6th April 1988, Driver Ernest Francis Patrick Drinkwater, 5th Australian Field Artillery Brigade (Reg No-10147), labourer from Lyons Vale, Crookwell, New South Wales and Newcastle? N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 90. CATHOLIC 1-J Com. 70.
Born at Waratah, New South Wales on the 26th March 1898 to James and Charlotte A Drinkwater; husband of Amy Myra Drinkwater nee Riley (married 1920, Lambton, N.S.W., died 3.12.1961, age 59, sleeping side by side), Ernest enlisted on the 1st September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A35 Berrima on the 17th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 31.1.1916 (mumps, mild), 1.12.1916 (trench feet, mild, tranferred to England 3.12.1916), 31.1.1919 (otitis media).
Wounded in action - 3.11.1917 (GSW left shoulder, mild, transferred to England 14.11.1917).
Commenced return to Australia 27.4.1919.
Ernest arrived home on the 11th June 1919, being discharged on the 4th August 1919.
Mr. Drinkwater’s name has been inscribed on the Waratah Superior Public School Roll of Honour.
I located Ernest resting in an unmarked grave, so Anzac Day 2023 I erected a cross adorned with poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states DECEASED, 3.4.1988.
Not officially commemorated.
Older brother William John (born 21.12.1895, Waratah, New South Wales, labourer (Soap Works, Messrs. Kitchen & Sons Limited, North Waratah, N.S.W.), from Turton Road, Waratah, New South Wales and 1 Ida Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., enlisted 28.12.1916, 30th Battalion, Reg No-4898, RTA 13.10.1919, 5th Australian Division Salvage Company, died 14.4.1972, age 76, not officially commemorated, also resting at the cemetery, CATHOLIC 3-93. 132) also served 1st. A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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