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HARRIS, Ewart Edmund
| Service Number: | 743 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Maidstone, Kent, England, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Port Broughton, Barunga West, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Daw Park, South Australia, 31 August 1969, cause of death not yet discovered, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: | Port Broughton War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Sep 1914: | Involvement Private, 743, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Sep 1914: | Embarked Private, 743, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Melbourne | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 743, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by tony griffin
The son of Edmund and Annie Harris of Pemburg, near Tumbidge Wells in Kent, Ewart had emigrated to Australia and was working in the Port Broughton area as a farmhand. His address in Port Broughton was c/- A. Eley.
Born in Maidstone, Kent, he was 26 years old when he enlisted at Morphettville on 4 September 1914. Posted to F Company 12 Battalion he entrained to Melbourne and embarked aboard HMAT A2 “Geelong” on 17 September 1914. The 12th landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and sometime between the landing and the 28th April Ewart received a bullet wound to his right thigh. He was invalided to England due to the serious nature of his wound. With a compound fracture of his right femur he was declared medically unfit and embarked for Australia from Plymouth aboard HMAT A29“Suevic” on 8 October 1915 and disembarked on 19 November. He was discharged in Adelaide on 15 June 1916.
In 1917 Ewart married Ruth Norwood Simpson and took up farming at Wall Flat near Mannum.