CUBBINS E.

Given Names:  Ernest Gladstone

Service Number:  3976

Unit:  5th Battalion, 12th reinforcements                                                                           

Rank:  Private  

Paybook Number: 

Age:  19 Yrs  3 Mths

Occupation:  Salesman                                                                                                  

Marital Status:  Single

Religion:  Methodist

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION           

Height:  5 Ft  6½ In                  

Weight:  148 Lbs

Chest:  34½-37 In

Hair:  Fair

Eyes:  Blue

Complexion:  Fair

ENLISTMENT

Date Enlisted:  29/6/1915

Place:  Melbourne

Next of Kin:  FATHER  John Cubbins

32 Molesworth Street, Kew, Victoria                                                                                 

Embarkation Date:  23/11/1915

Port:  Melbourne                                       

Ship:  HMAT Ceramic A40

END OF WAR 

Status:  Returned to Australia

Ship:  City of Poona                                   

Embarked:  28/3/1919                               

Disembarked:  14/5/1919

Unit:  5th Battalion                                                                                                                        

Rank:  Lance Corporal

Discharge Date:  6/7/1919                         

Place:  Melbourne

MEDALS AND AWARDS

14/15 Star:  991

British War Medal:  29135

Victory Medal:  28926

Other:    Military Medal

BIRTH

Date or Year:  26/3/1896

Place:  Kew, Victoria                               

Father:  John CUBBINS                          

Mother:  Emma BALL

MARRIAGE

Year:  1922     

Place:             

Spouse: Doris May KAY

DEATH

Date or Year: 14/5/1971                          

Place: Brighton, Victoria                          

Burial:  Springvale, Victoria

SERVICE RECORD HIGHLIGHTS

Wounded in action 25/8/1918; gassed

Military Medal recommendation dated 28/9/1917; during the operations east of Ypres on 20/9/1917 laid the lines to the company's and established touch with them, at intervals during the day and night he repaired the lines which were continually being broken by shell fire; subsequently successfully laid a heavy armoured cable which then became broken, and again went out and repaired cables

MEMORIALS

Kew State School

Kew War Memorial

Trinity Grammar

WORLD WAR 2 SERVICE

Service Number:  V372145                                     

Date Enlisted:   12/3/1942                                                     

Date Discharged:  10/10/1945

COMMENTS