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Jay E L    Pte    4244

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 5 years, 11 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

Jay E L    Pte    4244    Ernest Lindsay            8 Inf Bn    21    Salesman    Single    Meth       

Address:    Kensington, McCracken St, 67   

Next of Kin:    Jay, J, Mrs, mother, 67 McCracken St, Kensington   

Enlisted:    28 May 1917       

Embarked:     A64 Demosthenes 29 Dec 1915   

 

Jay  E L   Gunner     38979      Ernest Lindsay              FAB    23  Clerk   single   Meth  

Embarked:   SS  Indarra  26 Nov 1917   

 

Relatives on Active Service:

Jay A E Gunner 38978 brother

Jay W W Sgt 643  brother

McArthur-A-J-Pte-475  cousin  

 

 

A little under two years' prior to his enlistment in May 1917, Ernest Jay suffered and was operated on for a left inguinal hernia.  Within a month of enlisting Jay developed a right inguinal hernia, and had been on light duties ever since.  He initially resisted another operation, and refused to wear a truss, but in the end he had the operation, and was returned to Australia unfit for further duty.

 

Jay enlisted for Home Service for a period of weeks, but re-enlisted in the AIF and again embarked for overseas service in November 1917.  He was embarked for France on 15 February 1918, but was  returned to the UK for three weeks with phimosis on 28 February.   

 

Jay was taken on strength of the 1st DAC on 23 August 1918, and then transferred to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade as a Driver on 4 October 1918.

 

In January 1919 he was admitted to the 1st Australian Field Ambulance with suspected tonsillitis or diptheria.  This was diagnosed in the end as ulcerative tonsillitis, and it ended up giving him an early ticket home in April 1919.

 

 

War Service Commemorated   

Kensington Methodist Church (L)

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour With the Colours

Regimental Register

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