INGRAM, Ernest Clarence
| Service Number: | 3387 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 September 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Vegetable Creek via Glen Innes, New South Wales, 1 December 1876 |
| Home Town: | Collie Burn, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner and Machinist |
| Died: | Heart Failure, Collie, Western Australia, 2 February 1933, aged 56 years |
| Cemetery: |
Collie General Cemetery, Western Australia WA BMD: Death Certificate Registration No:28/33 |
| Memorials: | Collie Coal Company Ltd. Employees |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Sep 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3387, 5th Pioneer Battalion | |
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| 23 Dec 1916: | Involvement Private, 3387, 6th Pioneer Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Dec 1916: | Embarked Private, 3387, 6th Pioneer Battalion, HMAT Berrima, Fremantle | |
| 19 Oct 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3387, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Port Lyttleton | |
| 21 Dec 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3387, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Medically Unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Ernest Clarence Ingram (Service No:3387) enlisted in the AIF on 25 September 1916 with No 89 Depot Battalion, and was attached to 5th Pioneer Battalion on 23 December 1916 when he embarked with his Unit from Fremantle for Devonport on board HMAT A35 Berrima. On 19 October 1917 Private Ingram embarked from England for Fremantle on board HT Port Lyttleton, and was attached to 16th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 21 December 1917 (Medically Unfit). Three of his sons (Robert, Snowy and Gordon) served in WWII.
Ernest was born at Vegetable Creek (Emmaville), New South Wales in 1876, eldest of three children of John Armstrong Leslie Ingram (b1840 in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) and his second wife Martha Reid (b1846 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland). John immigrated in 1860, arriving in Sydney, New South Wales on board the Alfred - he served in the Royal Irish Constabulary before leaving Ireland. In 1863 in Sydney, John married his first wife Elizabeth (Eliza) Dobbyn (b1841 in County Ballycumber, Ireland) - Eliza immigrated in 1863, arriving in Sydney on board the Fairlie, and marrying John that year in Sydney. John and Eliza settled in Newcastle, where John was a Police Constable (No:1818) until 1867, when he became a Miner in Araluen. Following Eliza's death in 1871, John left his three children with relatives and went to Gympie, QLD where he worked as a Miner. By 1876 John was living in Araluen with his second wife Martha Reid (b1846 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland). John and Martha lived at Vegetable Creek and Araluen, where John was a Miner before settling in Sydney in the early 1900s.
Ernest was a Miner in Bathurst, New South Wales in 1899 when he married his first wife Catherine Ferguson McKinnon (b1870 in Bathurst, New South Wales). Following their divorce, Ernest remarried to Winifred (Winnie) Gillett (b1884 in Lancashire, England) - Winnie was a Cotton Spinner when she immigrated in 1901, arriving in Maryborough QLD on board the Duke Of Norfolk. Ernest and Winnie lived in Sydney and Maitland before moving to Western Australia with their two children in 1907. The couple settled in Collie Burn via Collie, where they raised their family and Ernest was a Miner and Machinist. Following his Discharge from the AIF - he was Medically Unfit as a result of a mine explosion in NSW in 1899, when he had suffered serious chest injuries (NAA). Ernest and Winnie settled in Collie Burn, where Ernest worked as a Miner and Taxi Driver until his death in 1933. Winnie died in 1949.
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