Leone Fabre shares the story of family member Ernest Cockbill Kendrick.

Ernest Cockbill Kendrick was born in South Melbourne in September 1897. He is the fourth son of Mary Caroline Cockbill and Alfred John Kendrick and was always known as “Jack”. On 18 October 1915, Jack enlisted in the AIF at Melbourne and was allocated to the 46th Battalion and given service number 2415. He was 18 years and one month of age, he was 5′ 5″ tall, had blue eyes and had light brown hair. He did most of his training at the Broadmeadows camp prior to his departure on board the HMAT ANCHISES in March 1916. He was KIA on 6th April 1918. Ernest is remembered at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial and at the Australian War Memorial for all time.

Read more about Ernest on Leone’s blog.