Eric Evernden SIGGS

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SIGGS, Eric Evernden

Service Number:	3481
Enlisted:	27 November 1916
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	50th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Norwood, South Australia, 28 November 1888
Home Town:	Kent Town, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia
Schooling:	Rose Park Public School, South Australia
Occupation:	Stationer
Died:	Killed in Action, Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium, 26 September 1917, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

27 Nov 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3481, 50th Infantry Battalion
10 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 3481, 50th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: ''
10 Feb 1917:	Embarked Private, 3481, 50th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Adelaide
Date unknown:	Involvement 3481, 50th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School

Eric Evernden Siggs, was born in Norwood, South Australia on 28th November 1888. He attended Rose Park Public School. He worked as a Stationer before he served in the First World War, for which he enlisted on 27th November 1916 in Adelaide. He was previously rejected to join the war as he suffered from heart problems. His efforts to join the war shows his passion to serve the Country. Cemetery records show that his Father's name was Samuel Evernden Siggs and Mother's name was Lydia Siggs. Records also show that his brother William Siggs also served in the Australian Flying Corps and returned on 6th May 1919.

Eric was enlisted on 27th November 1916 in Adelaide. He was part of the 50th Australian Infantry Batallion that embarked from Adelaide on board HMAT Seang Bee on 10th February 1917. He was also part of the 9th Reinforcement Unit. He was killed in action in Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium on 26th September 1917. There is no known grave for Eric.

Though there is no grave for Eric, but he is one of the many soldiers who lost their lives in Ypres, Belgium. The Ypres Memorial or the Menin Gate Memorial was opened on 24th July 1927, where there is a stone laid with names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians' names inscribed as they do not have a no known grave.

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