ELCOATE, Aubrey Tom Johnstone
| Service Numbers: | 212, 3107 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 1 May 1882 |
| Home Town: | Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | New South Wales, Australia, 15 September 1942, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
New South Wales Garden Of Remembrance |
| Memorials: | Brisbane Grammar School Boer War Honour Board, Samford Honour Roll, Samford School Honour Roll |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 212 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 212, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 212, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 3107, 5th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Hymettus embarkation_ship_number: A1 public_note: '' | |
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| 3 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 3107, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hymettus, Brisbane |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Served in both the South African (Boer) War and WW1.
Private S.N. 212, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Boer War.
Private rising to S.Q.M. Sergeant S.N. 3107, 5th Light Horse Regiment AIF, WW1.
When Aubrey Tom Johnstone Elcoate enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as F. E. Morris, Toowong, Qld. In the Boer War Service Paybooks for the 6th QIB, Bk 2 p. 7, it is noted he directed part of his pay to his mother Mrs E. Morris, Toowong.
Aubrey Tom Johnstone Elcoate was born on 1 May 1882 in Queensland, a son to John Weatherly Elcoate and Isabel Elcoate (nee Johnstone). His father had passed in 1897 and his mother remarried in 1898 to Frederic Ebenezer Morris in Queensland.
When he enlisted in Brisbane in Jan 1916 for WW1 he noted on his Attestation Form that; he was born at Maytown Nth Queensland and was 33 years 8 months old; was single and working as a Clerk; and his N.O.K. was his mother Mrs. I. Morris, Hamilton. Newspaper reports at the time of his enlistment indicate he was living in the Samford area of Brisbane.
Aubrey married Lilian Mary Gubbins on 16 Jul 1924 in Queensland and they had 2 children. Its unclear when the family moved to NSW but they were living in Sydney when he passed in 1942.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 514; Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 6th QIB Bk 2, p. 7; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record).
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