Ernest Herbert Doyle

Service number: 1595

Rank: Private

Unit: 54th Battalion (Infantry)

Service: Australian Army

Conflict: 1914-1918

Date of death: 26 September 1917

Cemetery or memorial details: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium

War Grave Register notes:

DOYLE, Pte. Ernest Herbert, 1595. 54th Bn. 26th Sept., 1917. Age 36. Son of Ambrose Knight Doyle and Christina Doyle; husband of Eliza Doyle, of The Pines, Condamine St., Manly, New South Wales. Native of Summer Hill, New South Wales.

Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army

Mr Doyle enlisted on 9 October 1916, aged 35 and 11 months. He was a commission agent. He was wounded in action on 15 May 1917, and rejoined his unit on 8 June 1917. On 26 September 1917 he was killed in action at Polygon Wood.See Manly Daily 27 August 1997 p17 re his home in Condamine Street.