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Ernest Allen John YDE

Regimental number7332
Place of birthWilliamstown, Victoria
SchoolNew Castle Street State School, Victoria/WA
Other trainingTechnical School, WA
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationPainter
AddressWest Perth, Western Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation23
Next of kinMother, Mrs Hellen Yde, 126 Vincent Street, North Perth, Western Australia
Previous military serviceNil.
Enlistment date14 August 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name16th Battalion, 24th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/33/6
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A28 Miltiades on 29 January 1917
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll4th Machine Gun Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularDied of starvation whilst a prisoner of war. His grandfather was an 'old French soldier' and his father was a mounted rifleman for years in Lilydale, Victoria, but never saw active service.
Fate21 November 1918
Age at death26.2
Age at death from cemetery records25
Place of burialCologne Southern Cemetery (Plot IX, Row G, Grave No. 17), Germany
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
176
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Ernest August and Helen YDE
Family/military connectionsCousin: (Distant) Lieutenant Carse, of Victoria and Private Edward Bradshaw Lambelluk.

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