MANN, Ernest Edward
| Service Number: | 7739 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 August 1917, 26th Reinforcements |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Warwick, Southern Downs, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 11 January 1987, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: | Warwick War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Aug 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7739, 9th Infantry Battalion, 26th Reinforcements | |
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| 31 Oct 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 7739, 9th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 16 Sep 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 7739, 9th Infantry Battalion, Breaching the Hindenburg Line - Cambrai / St Quentin Canal | |
| 15 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7739, 9th Infantry Battalion |
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Ernest Mann
Ernest Mann was a grocer living in Warwick Queensland when he enlisted on 13 August 1917. He was allocated to the 26th reinforcement draft for the 9th Infantry Battalion serving in the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division. The 3rd Brigade had led the landing force ashore at Gallipoli three and a half years earlier and so had a proud history of service throughout the Great War.
Ernest's introduction to front line service was however , delayed by a succession of illnesses that saw him in and out of hospital through the early part of 1918.
He eventually joined the Battalion a bare three weeks before the AIF was withdrawn from the line after the battle of Montbrehain on the 5th October 1918. Ernests's exposure to combat consisted of the final phase of the breaching of the Hindenburg Line.
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