Ernest John FINDLEY MID

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FINDLEY, Ernest John

Service Number:	4416
Enlisted:	31 January 1916
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Australian Provost Corps
Born:	Geelong West, Victoria, Australia, 21 May 1891
Home Town:	Fumina, Baw Baw, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 25 March 1958, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Warragul Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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World War 1 Service

31 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4416, 21st Infantry Battalion
29 Mar 1916:	Involvement Private, 4416, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Orontes embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
29 Mar 1916:	Embarked Private, 4416, 21st Infantry Battalion, RMS Orontes, Melbourne
29 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, Anzac Provost Corps , Alexandria
3 Aug 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4416, Anzac Provost Corps , embarked Alexandria for England on board Tunisian
25 Nov 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, Australian Provost Corps , France
21 Sep 1918:	Honoured Mention in Dispatches, Awarded, and promulgated, London Gazette No. 31089 (31 December 1918); Commonwealth Gazette No. 61 (23 May 1919).
3 Jul 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 4416, Australian Provost Corps , embarked Tilbury for RTA per HT Zealandic
17 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 4416, Australian Provost Corps

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Ernest John Findley MiD (Service No:4416) enlisted in the AIF on 31 January 1916 as a Private with 21st Infantry Battalion. On 21 March 1916 Private Findley embarked from Melbourne for Egypt on board RMS Orontes and transferred to ANZAC Provost Police Corps on 29 April 1916 in Alexandria. Private Findley embarked from Alexandria for England on board the Tunisian on 3 August 1916 and was in France on 25 November 1916 when he was promoted to Lance Corporal. Lance Corporal Findley was attached to Australian Army Provost Corps when he was awarded a Mention in Despatches (MiD) on 21 September 1918. He embarked from Tilbury for the RTA on 3 July 1919 on board HT Zealandic and was a Corporal attached to the Provost Corps at Discharge on 17 October 1919.

Born in 1891 in Geelong Victoria, Ernest was second of four children of George Findlay (b1858 in Aberdeen, Scotland) and Margaret Anne Mansfield (b1858 in Moolap, Victoria). George (a Labourer) and Margaret married in 1885 in Geelong, Victoria where they settled and raised their family before moving to Melbourne in the early 1900s. George was a Labourer.

Ernest was a Farmer in Neerim, Victoria in 1911 when he married Matilda Margaret Smith (b1892 in Neerim, Victoria). Ernest and Matilda lived at Icy Creek and Fumina via Neerim where Ernest was a Farmer. Matilda died in 1929 and Ernest in 1958.

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