Ernest (Ned) LAVER

LAVER, Ernest

Service Number: 456
Enlisted: 27 July 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 30th Infantry Battalion
Born: Carrington, New South Wales , Australia, 15 September 1886
Home Town: Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Coal trimmer
Died: Wingham, New South Wales, Australia, 4 August 1921, aged 34 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
CATHOLIC 1-03. 6.
Memorials: Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates, Carrington Football Club HR
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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

99 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 5th August 1921, Private Ernest (Ned) Laver, 30th Battalion, coal trimmer (Dyke & Basin, Carrington, N.S.W.), from Darling Street, Carrington, New South Wales and Wingham, N.S.W., father of one, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 34. CATHOLIC 1-03. 6.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141068957- funeral notice states service.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141074237
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141067181

Born at Carrington, New South Wales on the 15th September 1886 to John Hall and Catherine Laver; husband of Isabella Laver nee Platt (married 1919, Wallsend, N.S.W., died?), Ned enlisted July 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137971217

Admitted to hospital 19.12.1916 with trench feet, Mr Laver was invalided home May 1919, being discharged 5th July 1919 suffering from trench feet and deafness (shell shock?).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139653864
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139446780
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162562435

Ned’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Memorial Gates and the Carrington Football Club Roll of Honor (photo, unveiled on the 20th December 1919). Name possibly inscribed on the Carrington M.U.I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour.

Ned’s headstone gives us no indication of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I have placed poppies in remembrance of his suffering during The Great War.
http://sandgate.northerncemeteries.com.au/index.php/war-heroes/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&aso=exact&s_f=id&data_search=21031#2

Service record indicates date of death, so I will submit an application to DVA asking for official commemoration at Ned’s gravesite. CATHOLIC 1-03. 6.

Younger brother Harold Francis (Reg No-479, 35th Battalion, born 1893, died?) also served 1st A.I.F.

Younger brother John (Bert) Henry (Reg No-220, 1st Australian Field Ambulance, born 1895?, died 1946) also served 1st A.I.F.

Lest We Forget.

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