Edwin Walter EARNSHAW

EARNSHAW, Edwin Walter

Service Numbers: 251, 319
Enlisted: 26 April 1902
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 6th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
Born: Echuca, Vic., 22 March 1877
Home Town: Echuca, Campaspe, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Forage Expert
Died: Perth Public Hospital, Perth, WA, 12 March 1919, aged 41 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
Baptist - Section BA - Gravesite #0011
Memorials: Echuca Boer War Memorial
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Staff Sergeant, 251, 6th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse
1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 319, 2nd Victorian Mounted Rifles
26 Apr 1902: Enlisted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, 251, 6th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Accidentally shot in foot at Merrifoentel on 09 May 1900 and invalided to Australian arriving 26 August 1900

Returned for second tour QM Sergeant #251 6th Australian Commonwealth Horse

Son of Charles and Ann Ruth (Monk) Earnshaw.
Brother of Charles William, unnamed child, Ethel Sarah, Ernest, Alice Theresea, Edith, Eva Lucy, Ella Ruth, Claude Tasman, May Pearl and Garnet.
Husband of Sarah Ann (Gibbs) Earnshaw.
Father of Pearl, Claude, Kenneth, Edward and Ronald.

THE SOUTHERN ARGUS AND WAGIN-ARTHUR EXPRESS, PERTH WA.
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919.
FAMILY NOTICES:
DEATHS:
EARNSHAW - On March 12th, 1919, at Perth Public Hospital, after several weary months of sickness, Edwin Walter Earnshaw, beloved husband of S.A. Earnshaw, of Swanpoole, West Arthur, and father of Pearl, Claude, Kenneth, Eddie and infant son, Ronald.
Oh weary heart there is a home,
Beyond the reach of toil and care,
A home where sorrows never come,
Husband and father resting there.

THE WEST AUSTRALIA, PERTH WA.
THURSDAY MARCH 13, 1919.
FAMILY NOTICES:
FUNERALS:
EARNSHAW - The Friends of the late Mr. Edwin Earnshaw, formerly of Echuca, Victoria, and late of Arthur River, Wagie, Western Australia, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of internment, the Baptist portion of the Karrakatta Cemetery. The funeral is appointed to leave the Private Mortuary of Messrs. Donald J. Chipper and Son, 844 May-street, Perth, at 10:20 o'clock, TOMORROW (Friday) MORNING.
Friends wishing to attend the funeral may proceed by the 11 o'clock train from Perth.
DONALD J. CHIPPER & SON, Funeral Directors, 844 May-street, Perth.

BEREAVEMENT NOTICE:
Mrs. S.A. Earnshaw, of Swanpoole, West Arthur, desires to thank all kind friends for their kindness and help, both before and since their recent sad bereavement.

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