Ernest Joseph TIDMARSH DCM

TIDMARSH, Ernest Joseph

    Service Number: 1785
    Enlisted: 16 May 1915, Place of enlistment - Liverpool, New South Wales
    Last Rank: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant
    Last Unit: 17th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Robertson, New South Wales, 1884
    Home Town: Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales
    Schooling: Kogarah School, NSW
    Occupation: Clerk
    Died: Influenza and Double Pneumonia, Asthoria Hospital Paris, France, 10 November 1918
    Cemetery: City of Paris Cemetery, Pantin
    Plot 6, Row 19, Grave 18 Headstone Inscription "NOT GONE FROM MEMORY OR FROM LOVE GONE TO A BRIGHTER HOME ABOVE", City of Paris Cemetery, Pantin, France
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Cronulla SLSC Roll of Honour, Kogarah Pictorial Honour Roll No.1, Sutherland WW1 Memorial Wall
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    World War 1 Service

    16 May 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1785, Place of enlistment - Liverpool, New South Wales
    28 Jul 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1785, 17th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on HMAT 'A23' Suffolk from Sydney on 28th July 1915, disembarking Egypt.
    11 Sep 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1785, 17th Infantry Battalion, Embarked on Ionian from Alexandria, Egypt on 11th September 1915 to join Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on Gallipoli Peninsula.
    3 Nov 1915: Promoted AIF WW1, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 17th Infantry Battalion, Promoted to Temporary Corporal on 31st July 1915, then promoted to Temporary Sergeant on 1st August before being promoted to Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 3rd November 1915.
    9 Jan 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1785, 17th Infantry Battalion, Returned to Alexandria, Egypt from Mudros, Greece on 9th January 1916.
    17 Mar 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1785, 17th Infantry Battalion, Embarked from Alexandria, Egypt on 17th March 1916, disembarking Marseilles, France on 23rd March 1916 to join British Expeditionary Force.
    25 Apr 1917: Honoured Distinguished Conduct Medal, CQMS Ernest Joseph TIDMARSH
    "For conspicuous gallantry and coolness in action during the attack by the enemy on our position on the morning of 15th April at NOREUIL.
    He was one of a party sent out to disperse an enemy party collecting under a bank. The ground to be traversed was swept by heavy rifle fire and half the party was wounded.
    This N.C.O. succeeded in reaching the objective, assisted in killing a number of the enemy, and personally took four prisoners.
    His wonderful coolness and fine example inspired not only his own party, but numbers of others who witnessed the affair.

    G.O.C. 5th Aust. Inf Brigade
    12 Jul 1917: Promoted AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 17th Infantry Battalion
    10 Nov 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, 1785, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1785 awm_unit: 17th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-11-10

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    Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

    Ernest Josep TIDMARSH was born in Robertson, NSW in 1884

    His parents were Joseph William TIDMARSH & Martha BROWN who married in NSW in 1873 (registered in Kiama)

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