Regimental number | 1309 |
Place of birth | Normanville, South Australia |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Painter |
Age at embarkation | 33 |
Height | 5' 5.75" |
Weight | 150 lbs |
Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Mabel Blanche Dunnicliff, 238 Pirie Street, Adelaide, South Australia |
Previous military service | Served in the Citizen Mlitary Forces (Infantry, South Australia) for 4 years. |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Place of enlistment | Oaklands, South Australia |
Unit name | 12th Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/29/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 12th Battalion |
Fate | Died of wounds |
Date of death | |
Age at death from cemetery records | 34 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 17), Gallipoli, Turkey The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank. The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 65 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Albert and Harriett DUNICLIFF, Wife: Mrs M.B. DUNNICLIFF, 60 Edward Street, Norwood, South Australia |
Other details |
War service: Egypt, Gallipoli Taken on strength, 12th Bn, Gallipoli, 7May 1915. Wounded in action, 6 August 1915 (gun shot wound, head), and admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance. Died of wounds, 6 August 1915. Buried at Brown's Dip North Cemetery, Gallipoli, 500 yards S. of Anzac Cove; grave susequently lost. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal 'In Memoriam' notice, 'Adelaide Chronicle', 12 August 1916: 'You answered the call of your country,/But the voice of the cable tells/That our dear dad, in the khaki suit,/Was killed at the Dardanelles./We mourn your loss, but not your actions,/Sweet balm to your loved ones bring,/For he's ever a hero, the man who dies/For his country, God and King.' Inserted by his dear children, Albert, Charles, Alfred, Robert, and wife. |
Sources | NAA: B2455, DUNNICLIFF Ernest Albert Francis |