KINKADE, Ernest John
| Service Number: | 2821 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1916, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia, 17 July 1874 |
| Home Town: | Redfern, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Workshop Labourer |
| Died: | Illness, Egypt, 9 September 1916, aged 42 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kantara War Memorial Cemetery B. 18. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2821, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| 8 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 2821, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Mongolia embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 2821, 7th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Mongolia, Sydney | |
| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Trooper, 2821, 7th Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2821 awm_unit: 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1916-09-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Ernest John KINKADE (Service Number 2821) was born on 17th July 1874 at Waterloo. He began working for the NSW Government Railways as a temporary labourer at Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops on 24th August 1911. He was still in this role when he enlisted.
Kinkade enlisted at Liverpool on 21st January 1916. At that time he was married, to Louisa Margaret and gave her as his next of kin.
He left Australia from Sydney aboard RMS ‘Mongolia’ on 8th July 1916. He was allotted to the 7th Light Horse Regiment. In August he was taken on the strength of the 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment at Moascar (Egypt), and then to his allotted regiment on the 26th of that month.
On 7th September he was admitted, sick, to the 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance at Romani (Egypt) and died there two days later from Syncope (loss of blood pressure) in the course of bacillary dysentery. He was buried, according to his military files at Kilo 47 Rohane, by Chaplain McDonald of the Wellington Mounted Rifles. His remains were later exhumed and re-interred at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt.
Pensions were granted to his widow and to two children, Ernest Alfred Kincade, and Louisa Violet May Johnson – a step child.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board