Edward Homer

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HOMER, Edward

Service no: 94239 [1]

Place of birth: Lucknow, via Orange, 3 June 1892

Address: Post Office, Gilgandra

Occupation: Labourer

Next of kin: Margaret Harvey (mother), Post Office, Gilgandra

Date of enlistment: 2 September 1918

Place of enlistment: Gilgandra

Age at enlistment: 26

Fate: Served three months at Liverpool Training Depot. Discharged 19 October 1918 due to medical unfitness.

Date of death: 13 June 1982

Buried: Gilgandra General Cemetery

Edward Homer was born in Lucknow on 3 June 1892, the son of Thomas William and Margaret May Homer. He was one of nine known Aboriginal servicemen from the Orange area.

Edward was living in Gilgandra and working as a labourer when he enlisted in September 1918. He passed his initial medical examination and spent three months at the Liverpool Training Depot. He was discharged in October 1918 as being medically unfit; due to severe injuries sustained to his legs whilst horseriding in Tumut in January 1908.

Edward Homer died in June 1982, aged 90, and is buried in Gilgandra General Cemetery. [2]