HEMMINGS, Ernest
| Service Number: | 2914 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 46th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lambton, New South Wales, Australia , 22 April 1881 |
| Home Town: | Wickham, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | School, Lambton, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Machinist |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 28 April 1918, aged 37 years |
| Cemetery: |
Adelaide Cemetery Villers-Bretonneux, France Adelaide Cemetery (Plot III, Row K, Grave No. 4), Villers-Bretonneux, France, Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Islington Independent Order of Rechabites Roll of Honor, Wickham "Citizens of Wickham" Volunteers Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2914, 46th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 2914, 46th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Napier embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 17 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 2914, 46th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Napier, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
105 years ago today, on the 28th April 1918, Private Ernest Hemmings, 46th Battalion (signaller, Reg No-2914), miner & machinist (Public Works Department), from "Sylvia", 71 Railway Lane, Wickham, New South Wales, father of one (Rita, born 8.7.1903, New Lambton, N.S.W. to Ernest and Olivia R Hemmings, died 12.11.1923, age 20 years, 4 months, sleeping here), was Killed in Action while in a trench, hit by shrapnel or piece of artillery shell in back of head, Villers-Bretonneux, France, age 37 years 6 days. Grave marked with cross.
Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 22nd April 1881 to Thomas and Mary Maria Hemmings; husband of Olivia Reid Hemmings nee Christian (married 1902, of Collaroy Road, New Lambton, N.S.W., died 17.4.1904, Wallsend, N.S.W., sleeping at METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 24 NE. 28.), Ernest remarried to Elizabeth Ann Hemmings nee Dawber (Lizzie, married 1905, Wickham, N.S.W., of Albert Street, North Lambton, N.S.W., Lizzie remarried to George H A Bedford, 1920, New Lambton, N.S.W., died 12.7.1925, age 40, of 24 Belford Street, Hamilton West, N.S.W., sleeping at memorialised gravesite of Ernest - METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 23 SW. 3), Ernest enlisted on the 2nd October 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board SS Port Napier on the 17th November 1916.
Admitted to hospital 19.10.1917 (carbuncle, neck), 10.12.1917 (prurigo nodularis - chronic dermatosis of unknown etiology and urethritis).
Ernest is resting at Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, France. Plot III Row K Grave 4.
Mr. Hemmings’s name has been inscribed on the Wickham (Hawkins Oval) Soldiers' Memorial, Wickham Municipal District Roll of Honour Board (1), Newcastle Independent Order of Rechabites Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name would be inscribed on the New Lambton Order of Rechabites, Evening Star Tent, No-71 Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at the Hemmings and Bedford memorialised gravesite in remembrance of Ernest's service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 2 (PRIMITIVE) 23 SW. 1.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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