PEACOCK, Ernest Edward
| Service Numbers: | 2423, 2223 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 16 May 1880 |
| Home Town: | Merewether, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Newcastle South Public School, Merewether Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Hairdresser |
| Died: | Long illness - TB, Waterfall Sanitorium, at Waterfall near the Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia, 14 December 1926, aged 46 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 60. |
| Memorials: | Merewether Memorial Gates, Merewether Public School Roll of Honour, Merewether School of Arts Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 2423, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 2423, 30th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney | |
| 16 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2223, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
| 15 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2423, 30th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
98 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 15th December 1925, Private Ernest Edward Peacock, 30th Battalion (Reg No-2423), hairdresser from Railway Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 19 Macquarie Street, Merewether (Glebe), N.S.W., (Ernest was an inmate for 12 months of the Waterfall Sanitorium, at Waterfall near the Royal National Park near Sydney, date unknown), father of two, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 45. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) L SW. 60.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 16th May 1880 to George, died 30.10.1914, age?, from 19 Macquarie Street, Merewether (Glebe), N.S.W., CONGREGATIONAL-1ASE. 6 and Elizabeth Peacock nee Fisher, died 18.5.1944, age 90, Merewether, N.S.W., of 237 Glebe Road, Merewether, NSW, CONGREGATIONAL-1ASE. 6; husband of Hilda Francis Peacock nee Luckey (married at the Register Office, Bristol, England 11.8.1917, died?), Ernest enlisted on the 16th September 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A67 Orsova on the 11th March 1916.
Commenced return to Australia 15.5.1919.
Ernest arrived home on the 1st July 1919, with wife Hilda?, being discharged on the 15th August 1919.
Did not qualify for Victory Medal.
Mr. Peacock’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Merewether Public School Roll of Honor, Merewether School of Arts Roll of Honour, Merewether (Glebe) Methodist Church Honor Roll and the Newcastle South Public School Roll of Honour. Name would be inscribed on the Merewether Advance Soccer Football Club Roll of Honor, unveiled on the 22nd October 1917, 71 names had been inscribed with 7 Fallen, and more names possibly added, whereabouts unknown.
I have placed poppies at Ernest’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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