Stephen ELLERY

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Service Number:	1550
Enlisted:	22 July 1915, Dubbo
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF
Born:	Barry, New South Wales, Australia, 27 September 1891
Home Town:	Shaw, Blayney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Barry Public School and Neville Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Fireman
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 9 August 1916, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Blayney Pictorial Honour Roll No 1, Blayney War Memorial Gates, Cobar Canbelego (Anglican) Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

22 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 1550, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Dubbo
23 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, SN 1550, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Battle for Pozières
23 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, SN 1550, 1st Light Horse Regiment, SS Hawkes Bay, Sydney
11 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
27 Jul 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF
9 Aug 1916:	Involvement Gunner, SN 1550, 2nd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries, AIF, Battle for Pozières

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