BYRNES, Edward Ronald
| Service Number: | 477 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 5th Division Signals AMF |
| Born: | Inverell, New South Wales, Australia, 18 March 1896 |
| Home Town: | Little Plain, Inverell, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 8 August 1976, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-174. 35. |
| Memorials: | Inverell Little Plain Public School Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 477, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 477, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 477, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 7 Mar 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, Polygon Wood, 'He performed excellent work during the recent operations between 22nd and 30th September, 1917, in which the Division was recently engaged on the POLYGON WOOD front. he was in charge of an Amplifier and Power Buzzer Station between NONNE BOSSCHEN and POLYGON WOOD, which was established to work over the area in which the buried cables had been destroyed by shell fire. Owing to intense enemy shell fire the Earth leads of this station were continuously being cut. On one occasion three new leads were installed during one hour, and it was only by his fearlessness and constant attention in effecting repairs to these earth leads which were three hundred yards in length that communication with the Amplifier Station at Cable head on the Hooge side of GLENCORSE WOOD was maintained. For five days and until he was relieved at his post through fatigue, he was untiring in keeping his station, which was of the greatest value, in working order.' Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 31 Date: 7 March 1918 | |
| 25 Feb 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 477, 5th Division Signals AMF, 2nd MD |
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From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac who served bravely and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
47 years ago today, on the 10th August 1976, the ashes were interred of Lance Corporal Edward Ronald Byrnes (M.M.), referred to as Ted, 5th Australian Division Signals Company (Reg No-477), labourer from Little Plain, New South Wales and Raglan Street, Inverell, N.S.W. and Main Road, Cardiff, N.S.W. or Longworth Avenue, Cardiff, N.S.W. (1933) and 58 Ingall Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. (1967), age 81. ANGLICAN 3-174. 35.
Born at Inverell, New South Wales on the ? ? 1895, as BYRNE (WW2 service record states 18.3.1896) to John Moore and Ellen Sarah Byrnes from Medora Street, Inverell, New South Wales; husband of Hilda May Byrnes nee Pleasant (married 1921, Inverell, N.S.W., died 30.1.1991, sleeping here, name not inscribed on headstone plaque), Ted enlisted on the 4th September 1914 with the 13th Battalion at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board Transport A38 Ulysses on the 22nd December 1914.
Admitted to hospital 15.9.1915 (gastro enteritis), 28.11.1915 (jaundice), 11.1.1916 (mumps, mild).
Granted furlough to England from 7.9.1917 to 20.9.1917.
Awarded Military Medal, 31.10.1917.
Granted leave to Paris from 16.1.1918 to 24.1.1918.
Wounded in action - 15.5.1918 (gassed).
Granted leave to England from 4.9.1918 to 21.9.1918.
Proceeded on leave for return to Australia, 3.10.1918, embarked 12.10.1918.
Ted returned home on the 25th December 1918 (Special 1914 Leave), being discharged on the 25th February 1919.
Mr. Byrnes’s name has been inscribed on the Little Plain Public School via Inverell First World War Honour Roll - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article185345216, Delungra Anzac Park and Memorial Gates and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Enlisted in the Militia Forces on the 10th January 1933 at Hamilton, N.S.W. (Gunner, 1st Field Regiment Artillery, N10387, W.O.11, 14.4.1942 to 15.9.1943, discharged 15.9.1943).
Daughter Margaret Joyce Byrnes, who died tragically on the 8th April 1947, age 19, also sleeping here.
Unfortunately, there is no inscribed headstone or plaque to tell us that Ted is resting here, or that his wife Hilda is sleeping here, and as I am unable to erect a wooden cross at the gravesite I have placed poppies in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
I will be submitting an application to DVA asking for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque to be placed at the gravesite.
Older brother Ernest (born 21.3.1893 Inverell, New South Wales as BYRNE, labourer from Medora Street, Inverell, New South Wales, enlisted 12.1.1916, 33rd Battalion, Reg No-719, Wounded in Action - 9.6.1917 (shell shock, Battle of Messines), 17.4.1918 (gassed, severe), 31.8.1918 (gassed, severe), RTA invalided 20.2.1919, died 6.6.1957, Inverell, N.S.W., age 64, not officially commemorated) also served 1st A.I.F.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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