Soldier profiles

Name : TIMBS, ERNEST ARCHIE
Service Number : VX20194
Date of Birth : 02/03/1920
Place of Birth : TRARALGON, VIC
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : FARMERS LABOURER
Date of Enlistment : 31/05/1940
Locality on Enlistment : HIAMDALE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : TIMBS, E
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : PRIVATE
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : AUSTRALIAN DEPOT BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) :
Discharged : 23/05/1942
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6213774 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll

Background : Son of E. Timbs.

Service & personal summary At enlistment : single. 18 months in 52 Battalion previous military experience. At discharge : height 5 feet 6.5 inches, blue eyes, medium complexion, brown hair. Marital status : single. Marks / scars : 3 inch scar inner left forearm. Medical : gunshot wound involving head of right femur. Full time war service : A.I.F. which included 723 days active service (335 days overseas). Operational service : Middle East. War badge no. 6264. Discharge certificate no. 27513.

Service record
31/05/1940 Taken on strength Recruit Reception Depot Caulfield, Victoria.
01/06/1940 Posted to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion Puckapunyal, Seymour, Victoria.
08/04/1941 Embarked Sydney, New South Wales on H.M.S. Queen Mary (H.M.T. N.N.).
03/05/1941 Disembarked Middle East.
08/07/1941 Wounded in action.
11/07/1941 Perforated gunshot wound right groin.
11/07/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian General Hospital Middle East with perforated gunshot wound right groin and transferred to X list.
19/09/1941 Evacuated from 1 Australian General Hospital to 1 Australian Convalescent Depot.
06/10/1941 Discharged from 1 Australian Convalescent Depot and transferred to 1 Australian Depot Battalion.
06/10/1941 Marched into Depot Battalion Middle East.
12/11/1941 Evacuated to 1 Australian General Hospital with bullet wound injury.
16/11/1941 Medical class "Temporarily unfit for service but deemed fit within 6 months".
26/01/1942 Evacuated to 7 Australian General Hospital with gunshot wound right hip.
27/01/1942 Medical class "Temporarily unfit for service for a period greater than 6 months".
18/02/1942 Embarked Middle East on hospital ship S.S. Oranje for return to Australia as medically unfit.
28/02/1942 Court of inquiry : loss of kit by fire (S.S. Oranje at sea).
08/03/1942 Disembarked Melbourne, Victoria. Reason for return gunshot wound head right femur.
08/03/1942 Marched in ex Netherlands hospital ship.
08/03/1942 Granted disembarkation leave 08/03/1942 to 23/03/1942.
23/03/1942 Disposal - leave and report Staging Camp, 3 Military District (Victoria) Australian Imperial Forces Details, Caulfield, Victoria.
23/03/1942 Evacuated to 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
28/03/1942 Admitted 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria with gunshot wound head of right femur.
20/04/1942 Discharged to Reception Camp, Caulfield, Victoria.
20/04/1942 Transferred from 115 Australian General Hospital, Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria.
23/05/1942 Discharged Caulfield, Victoria.