| Regimental number | 1829 |
| Place of birth | Coonabarabran, New South Wales |
| School | At home |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Station hand |
| Address | Cunnamulla, Queensland |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 31 |
| Next of kin | Mother, Mrs Emma Eig, Woorooka, Barringun, New South Wales |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 42nd Battalion, 2nd Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/59/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A42 Boorara on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 42nd Battalion |
| Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Place of birth given on Attestation Form as Koolabarraban, New South Wales. |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Messines, Belgium |
| Age at death | 32 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 32 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 135 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Frederick and Emma EIG, Woorooroolea, Queensland. Native of Cunnambulla |
| Family/military connections | Brothers: 3356 Pte David Cecil EIG, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, returned to Australia, 29 April 1919; 6661 Pte John EIG, 26th Bn, returned to Australia, 7 September 1919; 2357 Pte Leslie Joseph EIG, 15th Bn, returned to Australia, 23 July 1918.~ |
| Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Brisbane, 16 August 1916; disembarked Plymouth, England, 13 October 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 25 November 1916. Killed in action, 2 July 1917. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Postal Address:
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Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
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Campbell, ACT 2600
