Ernest William OLIVER

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Service Number:	33317
Enlisted:	27 October 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	12th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Newmarket, Victoria, Victoria, 1895
Home Town:	Flemington, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Bacchus March, Victoria, 17 July 1978, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremation service held on 19 July 1978 with the ashes having been collected
Memorials:

27 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 33317, Field Artillery Brigades, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
11 May 1917:	Involvement Driver, 33317, Field Artillery Brigades, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
11 May 1917:	Embarked Driver, 33317, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Shropshire, Melbourne
29 Nov 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 12th Field Artillery Brigade , In France
14 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 33317, 12th Field Artillery Brigade , Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit

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Son of Walter Robert Oliver and Annie Oliver nee Jones of Victoria Street, Flemington, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 12 May 1919 aboard HT Port Napier disembarking on 2 July 1919

Medals: British War Medals, Victory Medal

During 1928c Ernest married Elsie Rubina Janetzki in Victoria