Name
Edwin E Elbourn
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2596
Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MORCHIES AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY
B. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
UNTO HIM THAT LOVED US & WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD
UK & Other Memorials
Memorial Plaque, St Lawrence Church, Bovingdon, Memorial Plaque, Memorial Hall, Bovingdon
Pre War
Edwin Elbourn was born in 1893 in Ley Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, the son of William and Alice (Merriden) Elbourn and baptised on 20 May 1894 in Flaunden, Hertfordshire. He was one of 7 children but one died in infancy.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at 60 Ley Hill, Latimer, Buckinghamshire, where his father was a shepherd on a farm. They remained there in 1911 and 18 year old Edwin was working as a shepherd like his father.
He emigrated to Australia arriving at Freemantle on 12 Jan 1912 on the Kaipara and worked as a Farm Hand.
His parents later lived at Game Farm, Bovingdon.
Wartime Service
Edwin enlisted on 6 May 1915 in Northam, Western Australia and embarked for Europe on 2 September 1915 on board HMAT A68 Anchises, arriving at Lemnos on 12 Dec 1915, then Alexandria and arrived at Marseilles on 5 Apr 1916.
He suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh on 31 May 1916 in France and was evacuated to England on the H.S. Antwerpen and admitted to the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Bristol. He was discharged from hospital and returned to his battalion in France on 6 Dec 1916.
He was killed in action, aged 24, on 6 April 1917 and is buried in Morchies Australian Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs A Elbourn, Game Farm, Bovingdon, Herts., ordered his headstone inscription: "UNTO HIM THAT LOVED US & WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Dick West. www.aid.adfa.edu.au,
