Ernest Joseph AMOUR

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AMOUR, Ernest Joseph

Service Number:	344
Enlisted:	2 August 1915
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 25 June 1886
Home Town:	Lambton, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Shunter
Died:	Manly, New South Wales, Australia, 24 May 1965, aged 78 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW Portion: Catholic_1; Section: 30; Plot: 65
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

2 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 344, Mining Corps
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 344, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Involvement Sapper, 344, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 344, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
20 Feb 1916:	Embarked Sapper, 344, Mining Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney
14 Jun 1920:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 344, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery

Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

Sapper Ernest Joseph Amour (born 25.6.1886, Lambton, New South Wales, shunter, enlisted 2.8.1915, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Reg No-344, RTA - 13th October 1919, died 24th May 1965, age-78, from 14 Dickson Street, Lambton, New South Wales and Campsie, N.S.W. and Manly, N.S.W.) resting same location.

Older brother, Private John Vaughan Amour, referred to as Vaughan, 18th Battalion (Reg No-1877), railway fireman from 14 Dickson (Dixon) Street, Lambton, New South Wales and Robertson, N.S.W. and Unanderra, N.S.W. and Coniston, N.S.W. and Flinders Street, Port Kembla, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. CATHOLIC 1-30. 65.

See Tunnellers - http://www.tunnellers.net/

Born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 10th December 1884 to John and Bridget Mary Amour nee Savage; husband of Veronica M Amour nee Amour (married 1926, Lambton, N.S.W., died?, divorced?), Vaughan enlisted June 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.

I have placed poppies at the gravesite of these 2 WW1 Diggers in remembrance of their service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Both brothers have Plaques in the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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