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FORTY, Ernest Henry

Service Number:	380
Enlisted:	18 January 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	59th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Balnarring, Victoria, Australia, 16 September 1896
Home Town:	Fairfield Park, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Coachbuilder
Died:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 27 July 1975, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Mount Gravatt Cemetery & Crematorium, Brisbane MONUMENTAL-3A-8-1073
Memorials:	Dromana War Memorial

World War 1 Service

18 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 380, 21st Infantry Battalion
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 380, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 380, 21st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
7 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 380, 21st Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Landed Gallipoli.
28 Feb 1916:	Transferred Private, 59th Infantry Battalion, Transferred to 59th Infantry Battalion Canal Zone. Taken on Strength Tel-El-Kebir
18 Jun 1916:	Embarked 380, 59th Infantry Battalion, Boarded HMS Kinfauns Castle at Alexandria. To join BEF France. Disembarked Marseilles 29 June 1916
24 Mar 1917:	Wounded Private, 380, Wounded in Action GSW Left Thigh
29 Mar 1917:	Embarked On H.S. Warilda for England. GSW Left Thigh
20 Jul 1917:	Transferred 59th Infantry Battalion, Rejoined Unit ex Wounded
25 Sep 1917:	Wounded 59th Infantry Battalion, Wounded in Action (second occasion) GSW left arm, thigh and buttock
4 Oct 1917:	Transferred 59th Infantry Battalion, Transferred to England, to Norfolk & Norwich Hospital GSW left arm, thigh and buttock
18 May 1918:	Transferred 59th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Battalion ex Wounded, from Overseas Training Brigade Longbridge Deverill via Folkestone England and Etaples France
30 Aug 1918:	Wounded Third occasion. GSW arm and right thigh
3 Oct 1918:	Transferred Australian Infantry Base Depot (AIF), Marched in Australian Infantry Base Depot, Havre ex Wounded
7 Oct 1918:	Transferred 1st Field Bakery and Butchery, detached for duty from Australian Infantry Base Depot to 1st Australian Field Bakery
5 Mar 1919:	Embarked Returned to Australia per HS "Nevasa" Disembarked 25 April 1919 3rd Military District (Victoria). Unauthorised embarkation (stowaway).
24 Jun 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 380, 59th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Military District

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