Returned ANZACs,
Territory ANZACs,
First World War, 1914-1918,
Place of birth
Waverley (N.S.W.),
Place of enlistment
Townsville (Qld.),
Date of enlistment
1914-10-26,
Age
27,
Occupation
Miner,
Service
Australian Imperial Force,
Unit
5th Light Horse Regiment, A Squadron,
Rank
Private,
Service number
358,
Next of kin
W O Idriess - Father ; Court House, Grafton, N.S.W.,
Date of death
1979-06-06,
Place of death
Sydney (N.S.W.),
Biographical notes
Ion Lllewellyn Idriess was born in Sydney in 1889 to a Welsh born father and Australian mother. He was a noted author publishing over 47 books. Following his service in the First World War he was for a time a buffalo shooter in the Top End of the Northern Territory. He also travelled extensively in Central Australia. Idriess captured the feel and stories of the Northern Territory outback in several of his published works: Lasseter’s Last Ride (1931), Flynn of the Inland (1932), The Cattle King (1936) and Nemarluk: King of the Wilds (1941).,
History
Idriess embarked from Sydney on board Transport A34 'Persic' on 21 December 1914. He was wounded in the arm by a bomb at Gallipoli on 5 September 1915. On 3 December 1917 he recieved gun shot wounds to his leg and was returned to Australia on 15 February 1918.,
Subject
Australia. Army. Australian and New Zealand Army Corps,
History,
World War, 1914-1918,
Northern Territory,
ANZAC,
Related links
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7365015,
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1066984/RCDIG1066984--84-.JPG,
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1557009/,
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/10/10/,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20800727,
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090420b.htm?hilite=idriess,
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5981629,
http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090420b.htm?hilite=idriess [Australian Dictionary of Biography : Idriess, Ion Llewellyn (1889-1979)],
http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1066984/RCDIG1066984--84-.JPG [Embarkation Roll - Transport A34 'Persic'],
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7365015 [Service Record],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/20800727 [History of the Fifth Light Horse Regiment (Australian Imperial Force) from 1914 to October 1918 by L.C. Wilson and H. Wetherell. Sydney: The Motor Press of Australia, 1926.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/awm4/10/10/ [Unit War Diary],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/5981629 [Northern Territory Dictionary of Biography edited by David Carment. Darwin : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008: p.297.],
http://www.awm.gov.au/people/rolls/nominal_rolls/first_world_war/page/R1557009/ [Nominal Roll],