FERRIER, Ivo Elmore
| Service Number: | 230 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Elmore, Victoria, Australia, November 1893 |
| Home Town: | Echuca, Campaspe, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Echuca Grammar School, Geelong College, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 22 March 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium Plot II, Row H, Grave No. 24 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Echuca St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Great War Roll of Honor, Echuca War Memorial, Geelong College WW1 Roll of Honour, Warragul War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Driver, 230, 29th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Driver, 230, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Driver, 230, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
| 22 Mar 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Driver, 230, 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of James Drysdal Ferrier and Emily Ferrier, of Warragul, Victoria, Australia.
HE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT HE RAN A STRAIGHT RACE AND EARNED HIS REWARD
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From How We Served
230 Driver Ivo Elmore Ferrier of Warragul and Echuca, Victoria, had been engaged as a grazier when he enlisted and was accepted for War Service on the 6th of July 1915.
Originally allocated to the 29th Battalion, 1st AIF, Ivo departed Australia bound for Egypt and further training on the 10th of November 1915.
Having safley reached Egypt Ivo was transferred over to the 5th Machine Gun Battalion on the 10th of March 1916, and was shipped to France where he was disembarked on the 23rd of May.
Aside from bouts of sickness and injury, of which he would recover from and be returned to his Unit in the trenches, Ivo's service was continuous throughout Northern France and Belgium.
Whilst serving in the vicinity of Neuve Eglise Ivo was 'Killed in Action' on the 22nd of March 1918, aged 24, and with the recovery of his body Ivo received a formal burial. To this day Ivo now rests in peace within Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Back in Australia, Driver Ivo Ferrier's supreme sacrifice made during 'The Great War', went on to be privately commemorated at the Ferrier family's collective burial site within Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria.
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