Service record for Evelyn Ellis, courtesy of the National Archives of Australia, Series B2455, Item ID 3540525
Indigenous Australian, Evelyn Ellis, 9th Reinforcements, 7th Machine Gun Company
Evelyn Ellis was born on Minjeirribah (North Stradbroke Island), Queensland in 1884 and worked as a carpenter before volunteering to serve with the first AIF in September 1916. After training at Seymour Barracks, Victoria, he embarked from Melbourne in December 1916 on board HMAT Orontes bound for England. The reinforcements trained at Perham Downs before sailing for France in September 1917. Ellis had been transferred to the 3rd Division Machine Gun Company.
Ellis served in France until being taken ill early in 1918, he was returned to Australia in May 1918 and medically discharged.
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- Service record: ELLIS, Evelyn
- Embarkation roll
- North Stradbroke Island's First World War Soldiers and the Homefront
- One of the soldiers featured in SLQ’s HistoryPin Collection
- Queensland’s Indigenous Servicemen [digital story & oral history, 12 min, mp4]
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