Ernest Henry FORTY

FORTY, Ernest Henry

    Service Number: 380
    Enlisted: 18 January 1915
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 1st Field Bakery and Butchery
    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: Not yet discovered
    Memorials: Dromana War Memorial
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    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 AIF Depot, 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, 3rd Military District

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