1891 - 1916

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• Birth	17 Jan 1891	Cressy, Tasmania, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Aug 1916	Pozières, France
  	Ernest Brumby has no known grave. His name is etched on the Wall of Rememberance at the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
  Person ID	I827	The Brumbys - Genealogy
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2010
  Father	Ernest BRUMBY,   b. 19 Sep 1864, Cressy, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 11 Apr 1942, Prospect, South Australia, Australia
  Mother	Eliza Alice LANGHAM,   b. Abt 1868,   d. 16 Sep 1945, Kensington, South Australia, Australia
  Married	18 Feb 1890	Cressy, Tasmania, Australia
  Family ID	F96	Group Sheet

• Event Map		Event Birth - 17 Jan 1891 - Cressy, Tasmania, Australia Died - 18 Aug 1916 - Pozières, France  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• War Records		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		AIF War Records of Ernest Gladstone Brumby - 1916
  		Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Files - Pte Ernest Gladstone Brumby
  		Roll of Honour circular - Ernest Gladstone Brumby

• Notes

  Ernest Brumby enlisted in the 5th Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the 1st Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on the 8th of March 1916. He served as a Private where he saw service in France, on the Western Front. Ernest Brumby died during the battle of Pozières, on the 18th of August 1916. His body was never recovered. His entry in the Embarkation Rolls is as follows: Regimental number 5655 Religion Methodist Occupation Commercial Traveler Address 89 Spensley Street, Clifton Hill, Victoria Marital status Single Age at embarkation 25 Next of kin Father, Ernest Brumby, 288 Newcastle Street, Perth, Western Australia Enlistment date 4 March 1916 Rank on enlistment Private Unit name 5th Battalion - 17th Reinforcements Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia onboard A14 HMT Euripides on 4 April 1916. Fate Killed in action. The 5th Battalion The 5th Battalion was among the first infantry units raised for the AIF during the First World War. Like the 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions it was recruited from Victoria and, together with these battalions, formed the 2nd Brigade. The battalion was raised within a fortnight of the declaration of war in August 1914 and embarked just two months later. After a brief stop in Albany, Western Australia, the battalion proceeded to Egypt, arriving on 2 December. It later took part in the ANZAC landing on 25 April 1915, as part of the second wave. It was led by Lieutenant Colonel D. S. Wanliss, the officer who had raised the battalion. Ten days after the landing the 2nd Brigade was transferred from ANZAC to Cape Helles to help in the attack on the village of Krithia. The attack captured little ground but cost the brigade almost a third of its strength. The Victorian battalions forming the 2nd Brigade returned to ANZAC to help defend the beachhead, and in August the 2nd Brigade fought at the battle of Lone Pine. The battalion served at ANZAC until the evacuation in December. After the withdrawal from Gallipoli, the battalion returned to Egypt and, in March 1916, sailed for France and the Western Front. From then until 1918 the battalion was heavily involved in operations against the German Army. The battalion's first major action in France was at Pozières in the Somme valley in July 1916. After Pozières the battalion fought at Ypres in Flanders then returning to the Somme for winter. In 1917, the battalion participated in the operations that followed-up the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, and then returned to Belgium to join the great offensive launched to the east of Ypres. In March and April 1918, the battalion helped to stop the German spring offensive. It subsequently participated in the great Allied offensive launched near Amiens on 8 August 1918. The advance by British and empire troops was the greatest success in a single day on the Western Front, one that German General Erich Ludendorff described as "the black day of the German Army in this war". The battalion continued operations until late September 1918. At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent. The November armistice was followed by the peace treaty of Versailles signed on 28 June 1919. In November 1918 members of the AIF began to return to Australia for demobilisation and discharge. In April, the battalion was so reduced that it and the 8th Battalion were amalgamated to form a composite battalion. In turn, this battalion was amalgamated with another, formed from the 6th and 7th Battalions, to form the 2nd Brigade Battalion.