LAVIS, Edward
| Service Number: | 110 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 December 1915, An original of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Walcha, New South Wales, Australia, 1890 |
| Home Town: | Guyra, Guyra, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | 1954, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Guyra District Great War Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 110, 33rd Infantry Battalion, An original of A Company | |
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| 4 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 110, 33rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Marathon embarkation_ship_number: A74 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 110, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Marathon, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Edward was the son of Dennis and Mary Jemima Lavis, of Guyra, NSW. His two brothers were both killed in 1916, 1721A Pte. Thomas George Dawson Lavis, 18th Battalion AIF, was killed in action on 22 May 1916, aged 22. An older brother, 2170 Pte. William Francis Lavis 18th Battalion was killed in action only a few months later at Pozieres, on 2 August 1916, aged 31.
During 1917 the following was reported in the Guyra Argus, “Private Edward Lavis, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Lavis, Guyra, had the misfortune of tripping over some barbed wire entanglements some time ago, tearing the lining off his ribs, which afterwards turned to a rather severe rapture of the stomach. He was in three hospitals in France before being sent to England, one of the hospitals being bombed by the Germans while he was an inmate and suffered about 100 casualties. Just two beds away from him three patients were killed, and 24 were injured in the same ward. The bottom of Pte. Lavis's stretcher was damaged, but luckily he escaped unhurt.”
Edward was severely wounded during August 1918 and returned to Australia a few months later, ‘gunshot wound to his left elbow, fractured humerus.’