2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
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Samuel Ernest Carlyon (SN 1070) born at Maryborough Victoria, was a 22 year old shunter when he enlisted in Melbourne on January 22nd 1915.He trained with the 13th Light Horse before embarking aboard the Ballarat on September 9th and sailing to Egypt where he was transferred to the 2nd Division Ammunition Column. He moved to France in March 1916 and during his service he had some health problems but he avoided combat wounds. When the war ended, he returned to Australia aboard the Trasos-Montes, disembarked on May 22nd 1919 and was discharged on July 15th.
Lucas’s Staffs Appreciation of Brave Men, the original Avenue register, records his name as Ernest S. Carlyon.
