Ernest Bell WARREN

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WARREN, Ernest Bell

Service Number:	1734
Enlisted:	9 March 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	8th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Mitiamo, Victoria, Australia, 6 August 1876
Home Town:	Dean, Hepburn, Victoria
Schooling:	Dean State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Creswick via Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 28 April 1949, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Creswick Public Cemetery The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:	Dean State School No 87 Honour Roll

Vietnam War Service

9 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1734, 39th Infantry Battalion

World War 1 Service

27 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1734, 39th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
27 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1734, 39th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne
9 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 8th Infantry Battalion, France
27 Aug 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1734, 8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Devonport on board HMT Pakeha for Cape Town (hospitalised in Cape Town)
6 Dec 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1734, 8th Infantry Battalion, embarked Cape Town for Melbourne on board HMAT Berrimah
28 Mar 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1734, 8th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Ernest Bell Warren (Service No:1734) enlisted in the AIF on 9 March 1916 and was attached to 39th Infantry Battalion 1st Reinforcement on 27 May 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for England on board HMAT Ascanius. Private Warren transferred to 8th Infantry Battalion in France on 9 September 1916, and in December that year was evacuated to hospital in England. On 27 August 1917, Private Warren embarked from Devonport on board HMT Pakeha and was hospitalised in Cape Town begore embarking from there for Melbourne on 6 December 1917 on board HMAT Berrimah. Private Warren was attached to 8th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 28 March 1918.

Ernest was born in Mitiamo, Victoria in 1876, eldest of eight children of William Warren (b1826 in Surrey, England) and Rachel Bell (b1857 in Creswick via Ballarat, Victoria). William had been sentenced at the Old Bailey to seven years Transportation to Australia for'felonoius receipt of stolen goods' in 1848, and arrived in the Colony on Western Australia in 1851 on board the Pyrenees. Rachel's father - a Miner in Ballarat - particapted in the Eureka Stockade in 1854. William and Rachel married in Creswick via Ballarat in 1876, and in 1881 William was a Miner in Archeron. William and Warren settled in Dean via Newlyn, where they raised their family and William was Farmer until his death in 1891. Rachel remarried in 1893.

Ernest worked as a Labourer and Farmer in Dean via Newlyn, and was a member of the Dean Rifle Club. Following his Discharge from the AIF, in 1919 in Ballarat, Ernest married Elsie Selina Hartup (b1898 in Creswick via Ballarat, Victoria). Ernest and Elsie settled at Dean via Newlyn where they raised their family and Ernest was a Farmer until his death in 1949. Elsie died in 1988.

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