Ernest Henry CHURCHER MM

CHURCHER, Ernest Henry

    Service Number: 435
    Enlisted: 22 August 1914, Enlisted at Randwick,NSW
    Last Rank: Sergeant
    Last Unit: 4th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Wandsworth, London, England, 1890
    Home Town: Paddington, Woollahra, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 26 December 1971, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW
    East Terrace 2, Wall 7 Commemorated with a plaque in the NSW Garden of Remembrance
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    World War 1 Service

    22 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Randwick,NSW
    20 Oct 1914: Involvement Private, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
    20 Oct 1914: Embarked Private, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney
    17 Nov 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4th Infantry Battalion
    20 Jan 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 4th Infantry Battalion
    26 May 1916: Promoted Sergeant, 4th Infantry Battalion
    26 Jul 1916: Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, Shrapnel wound to the left hand.
    27 Oct 1916: Honoured Military Medal, These men [Churcher, 1920 Claude William Buck, 912 Raymond Benson] on 6th August 1915 in the Lonesome Pine trenches became isolated with an Officer and another in an advanced Turkish trench but although strongly counter attacked they succeeded in shooting and bayoneting a much larger number of Turks and were further able to barricade and hold the trench until supports arrived. London Gazette on 27 October 1916, page 10486, position 47 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 April 1917,page 918, position 105
    4 Oct 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound fracturing his right thigh, later amputated Invalided to England on 16 October 1917
    10 Feb 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 435, 4th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit due to wounding

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Alfred Charles Churcher and Janet Churcher nee Gosling of 6 Creek Street, Battersea, London, England

    Husband of Amy Maud Churcher nee Ottewill of 36 Paddington Street, Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales. Ernest and Amy married in Newton, NSW during 1924

    Returned to Australia on 2 August 1918 aboard HS Kanowna

    Medals: Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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