O'Rourke Ernest Frederick

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O’ROURKE, ERNEST FREDERICK

Son of James O’Rourke and Nancy (nee Cash) O’Rourke

Regimental number	6588
Religion	Roman Catholic
Occupation	Labourer
Address	Colebrook , Tasmania
Marital status	Single
Age at embarkation	22
Next of kin	Mr J O'Rourke, Colebrook , Tasmania
Enlistment Date	8 August 1916
Date of Enlistment	9 August 1916
Rank on enlistment	Private
Unit name	12th Battalion, 21st Reinforcement
Embarkation Roll number	23/29/4
Rank from Nominal Roll	Private
Unit from Nominal Roll	40th Battalion
Fate	Killed in Action 4 October 1917
Age at death from cemetery records	23

Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne , Victoria , on board HMAT A17 Port Lincoln on 20 October 1916

Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra , at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.

Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 133.

Other details War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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