Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

29/08/1914

Date of Discharge

23/02/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney Showgrounds NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Bradford, England

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Groom

Next of Kin

William Ives (father), Bowlingback, Yorkshire, England

Service Number

2434

Final Rank

Driver

Final Unit

12 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Ives was employed as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from October 1912. Prior to arriving in Australia he had spent time in the Yorkshire Rifles, the 3rd Hussars for three years and one year with the Royal Field Artillery. Although promoted to Sergeant on enlisting he had reverted to the rank of Driver at his own request by the end of the war. Initially he served with the 1st Division Ammunition Column. He arrived in France in June 1916 with the 12th Field Artillery Brigade and was treated for diarrhoea and enteritis during February and March 1917. In May he transferred to the 112th Battery but in September was hospitalised in England with nasal obstruction and trench feet. Ives returned to Australia in October 1918 and was discharged on 23 February 1919, after which he returned to work at Duntroon until October 1920.

Description - height 5 feet 7 inches, weight 136 pounds, chest 38 inches, fair complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queanbeyan/ Canberra Advocate - 20 March 1919
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)