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Ernest Edward Driver

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Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.

Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.

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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Ernest Edward AWMM
  • Surname
    Driver AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 1668 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Baptist, Christian AWMM

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    Dunedin, Otago Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of birth
  • Place of birth
  • Birth notes
  • Address before enlistment
    Pre 27 August 1914 AWMM 2 Quay Street, North Quay, Brisbane, Queensland AWMM
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Mr Robert Driver, 24 Pine Hill Terrace, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM
  • Relationship status
    Pre 27 August 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    • 1914-1916 Egypt AWMM
    • 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
    • 1915-1916 Gallipoli AWMM
  • Armed force / branch
    Army AWMM
  • Service number
    WWI 1668 AWMM
  • Military service
    2.5 years, Dunedin Naval Artillery AWMM
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes
    • Height, WWI AWMM
      5' 6" AWMM
    • Weight, WWI AWMM
      107 lb AWMM
    • 02 Jul 1915 {Age 26} AWMMKilled in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last known rank

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Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Transferred to 7th Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, 2 April 1915.
    Proceeded to join Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 4 April 1915.
    Killed in action, Gallipoli, 2 July 1915; buried 2 July 1915. AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    2 July 1915 Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
    Age 26 AWMM
    Gallipoli, Turkey Peter Dennis, UNSW Canberra
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
  • Place of death
  • Cause of death
    Killed in Action AWMM
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Shell Green Cemetery (Plot I, Row I, Grave No. 9), Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
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