Service Number: 533
Enlisted: 3 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Inverness, Scotland, 1896
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Hand
Died: Cerebro spinal meningitis, 27th General Hospital, Mudros, Greece, 4 January 1916
Cemetery: Portianos Military Cemetery
Plot 111,Row B, Grave 304 Chaplain A. Wishart officiated Headstone inscription reads: 'I want to go home' he said and his father took him home
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bio details by Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 533, B Company, 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, daughter of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh: went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his Battalion in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unmarried. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Service No: 533
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 19th Bn.
Son of William MacDonald Dingwall and Isabella Ranken Dingwall, of Duncraig St., Inverness, Scotland. Native of Inverness, Scotland.
Enlisted: 3 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Inverness, Scotland, 1896
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Hand
Died: Cerebro spinal meningitis, 27th General Hospital, Mudros, Greece, 4 January 1916
Cemetery: Portianos Military Cemetery
Plot 111,Row B, Grave 304 Chaplain A. Wishart officiated Headstone inscription reads: 'I want to go home' he said and his father took him home
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bio details by Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 533, B Company, 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, daughter of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh: went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his Battalion in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unmarried. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Service No: 533
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 19th Bn.
Son of William MacDonald Dingwall and Isabella Ranken Dingwall, of Duncraig St., Inverness, Scotland. Native of Inverness, Scotland.
Service Number: 533
Enlisted: 3 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Inverness, Scotland, 1896
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Hand
Died: Cerebro spinal meningitis, 27th General Hospital, Mudros, Greece, 4 January 1916
Cemetery: Portianos Military Cemetery
Plot 111,Row B, Grave 304 Chaplain A. Wishart officiated Headstone inscription reads: 'I want to go home' he said and his father took him home
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bio details by Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 533, B Company, 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, daughter of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh: went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his Battalion in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unmarried. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Service No: 533
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 19th Bn.
Son of William MacDonald Dingwall and Isabella Ranken Dingwall, of Duncraig St., Inverness, Scotland. Native of Inverness, Scotland.
Enlisted: 3 March 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 19th Infantry Battalion
Born: Inverness, Scotland, 1896
Home Town: Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farm Hand
Died: Cerebro spinal meningitis, 27th General Hospital, Mudros, Greece, 4 January 1916
Cemetery: Portianos Military Cemetery
Plot 111,Row B, Grave 304 Chaplain A. Wishart officiated Headstone inscription reads: 'I want to go home' he said and his father took him home
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Glen Innes & District Soldiers Memorial
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bio details by Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
DINGWALL, ERNEST WILLIAM, Private, No. 533, B Company, 19th Battalion, 5th Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of William Macdonald Dingwall, of Dingwall, Bank Agent, by his wife, Isabella Banken, daughter of the late William Turnbull Dobson; b. Inverness, 14 May, 1896; educ Royal Academy Inverness, and George Watson's College, Edinburgh: went to Australia, 15 May, 1913; joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force in the spring of 1915; left for Egypt with his Battalion in June, 1915; went to the Dardanelles by the Saturnia on 17 Aug. 1915, and died at Lemnos, 4 Jan. 1916, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, contracted on active service; unmarried. Buried in Portianos Cemetery, Lemnos.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
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Service No: 533
Age: 19
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 19th Bn.
Son of William MacDonald Dingwall and Isabella Ranken Dingwall, of Duncraig St., Inverness, Scotland. Native of Inverness, Scotland.
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