FOOTE, Ernest Rolleston Vicars
| Other Name: | VICARS-FOOTE, Ernest Rolleston - Alternate surname |
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| Service Number: | 342 |
| Enlisted: | 12 February 1915, Yarram, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 23rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Portland, Victoria, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Warrnambool, Warrnambool, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Warrnambool Academy |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 10 April 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension Plot X, Row A, Grave No. 19 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Yarram WW1 War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 342, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Yarram, Vic. | |
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| 10 May 1915: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 342, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 10 May 1915: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 342, 23rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
| 10 Apr 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 342, 23rd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 342 awm_unit: 23 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-04-10 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Richard Vicars Foote, of The Bank of Victoria, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and the late Jane Vicars Foote.
FIGHTING FOR GOD AND RIGHT AND LIBERTY SUCH A DEATH IS IMMORTALITY
The late Sergt. Ernest Rolleston Vicars-Foote was the second son of Major R. Vicars-Voote, manager of the Bank of Victoria, Geclong. He was educated at the Warrnambool Academy, and on leaving school joined the staff of the Bank of Australasia at Warrnambool, afterwards serving in several of the branches of that institution. A few years ago he retired from the service of the bank to join his brother on land in South Gippsland. He enlisted in 1914, and sailed on 8th May, 1915. He served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France and was in hospital in Malta for some time. He was wounded and buried by an exploding shell in Gallipoli. Wounded again in France, was in hospital twice with trench feet, and suffered six times from quinsy. On the voyage from Egypt to France he travelled on the troop-ship "Southland'' which was torpedoed. Notwithstanding the severe strain imposed by his many vicissitudes, he stuck manfully and gallantly to duty and to the work he had gone out to accomplish till on 10th April he made the supreme sacrifice of his life. He rose from the position of a private to the rank of sergeant, and had qualified for a commission, but owing to illness missed it. His eldest brother is a lieutenant with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion in France, his two brothers-in-law are also attached to the same battalion, and his sister, Eveline is a "sister" in the A.A.N.S. in a hospital in England.
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