Name
Edwin E Elbourn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2596
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
11th Bn.
Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial
MORCHIES AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY
B. 3.
France
UK Memorials
Memorial Plaque, St Lawrence Church, Bovingdon
Memorial Plaque, Memorial Hall, Bovingdon
Pre War
Born in 1893 in Ley Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire son of William and Alice (Merriden) Elbourn later of Game Farm, Bovingdon. He was a shepherd and emigrated to Australia arriving at Freemantle on 12 Jan 1912 on the Kaipara.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 6 May 1915 in Northam, Western Australia and embarked for Europe on 2 Sep 1915 and arriving at Lemnos on 12 Dec 1915, then Alexandria and arrived at Marseilles on 5 Apr 1916. He suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh on 31 May 1916 in France and was evacuated to England on the H.S. Antwerpen and admitted to the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Bristol. He was discharged from hospital and returned to his battalion in France on 6 Dec 1916 and was then killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Dick West
