WATKINS, Ernest
| Service Number: | 351 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales, Australia, 9 June 1892 |
| Home Town: | Toronto, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Carrington,New South Wales, Australia, 25 December 1947, aged 55 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-140. 8. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 351, 17th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 351, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 351, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 19 Dec 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 351, 17th Infantry Battalion, Chronic rheumatism and TB, medically unfit. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery, not forgotten.
75 years ago today, on the Saturday morning of the 27th December 1947, Private Ernest Hopton Watkins, 17th Battalion (Reg No-351), labourer from Fennell Bay, New South Wales and Blackalls Park, N.S.W. and 6 Mathieson Street, Carrington, N.S.W., father of five, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 55. ANGLICAN 2-140. 8.
Born at Wisemans Ferry, New South Wales on the 9th June 1892 to Thomas and Lucy Maude Watkins; husband of Beatrice Emma Watkins nee Foott (married 1920, Gosford, N.S.W., died 19.9.1933, age 36, sleeping side by side with Ernest, unmarked grave - ANGLICAN 2-140. 6.) of Fennell Bay, New South Wales and Toronto and Carrington and Marks Point, N.S.W., Ernest enlisted January 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 3.9.1915 (dysentery).
Ernest returned home March 1916, being discharged medically unfit (tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism) on the 19th December 1916.
Mr. Watkins’s name has been inscribed on the Blackalls Park 1914-1918 Roll of Honour, Toronto & District Soldiers' Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies on Ernest’s white marble Commonwealth War Graves headstone in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 25/12/1947.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
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Lest We Forget.
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