WOOD, Ernest Allan
| Service Numbers: | 16158, 16168 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 December 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF) |
| Born: | Bradford, Yorkshire, England, 17 March 1898 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Motor Mechanic (May Bros) |
| Died: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 28 January 1976, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Sydney War Cemetery, New South Wales Sydney Morning Herald Death Notice: 30 January 1976 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Dec 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 16158, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF) | |
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| 22 Mar 1918: | Involvement Private, 16168, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Runic embarkation_ship_number: A54 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Mar 1918: | Embarked Private, 16168, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF), HMAT Runic, Sydney | |
| 9 Aug 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 16158, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF), embarked England for Sydney on board HT Ceramic | |
| 31 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 16158, Mechanical Transport Companies (AIF) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ernest Allan Wood (Service No:16158) served in the Cadets for four years, and then the Militia (35th Infantry Battalion) from 1913 until he enlisted in the AIF on 10 December 1917 - appointed Driver Motor Transport. Private Wood was attached to 5th Motor Transport Section on 22 March 1918 when he embarked with his Unit from Sydney for London on board HMAT A54 Runic. Embarking from England for Sydney on 9 August 1919 on board HT Cermaic, Private Wood was attached to 5th Motor Transport Section at Discharge on 31 October 1919. Son Kevin served in WWII.
Ernest was born in Yorkshire, England in 1898, eldest of three children of Joe Harry Wood (b1868 in Yorkshire, England) and Annie Helena Munroe (b1872 in Yorkshire, England). Joe (a Worsted Spinner) and Annie (a Grocer's Assistant) married in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1894. Joe was a Mill Engine Tenter in 1900 when he and Annie immigrated with their son, arriving in Sydney on board the Oroya. Joe and Annie settled in Sydney, where they raised their family and Joe worked as an Engineer for Fresh Food & Ice Coy Ltd. In 1923 he was in Katoomba recuperating from a workplace accident when he died.
Ernest was working as a Motor Mechanic (May Bros) in Sydney in 1917 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his Discharge, he was a Fitter in Sydney in 1922 when he married his first wife Lilian Christina Drummond (b1898 in Dipton, New Zealand) - they separated in the mid 1930s and were divorced in 1939 (both remarried). Ernest settled in Bondi, where he worked as a Pipe Fitter, and in 1964 remarried to Merle Margery West (nee Southton; b1893 in Maclean, Clarence River, New South Wales) - Merle was a Widow living in Bondi. Ernest died in 1976 and Merle in 1977.