Edward Leslie RABBITTS

RABBITTS, Edward Leslie. Gunner 443, 3rd Battery, First Field Artillery, 1st Brigade, Australian Imperial Force. Died at Malta 25th July 1915 aged 25. His stone was erected by his relatives in Sydney and his comrades in Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia.
Some notes from his army records.
He was born in 1890 at Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia to Edward and Ada Agnes. He was aged 24 and an apprentice veterinary surgeon , employed at John Potters and Sons, Sydney for 18 months. He joined up on the 24th August 1914 and served with 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, Australian Field Artillery. His next of kin was his father who lived at New South Head Road, Rose Ray, Ryde, New South Wales. His mother, Ada Agnes became his next of kin and she lived at Mount, St Margarets Hospital, Ryde, New South Wales.
He embarked as Gunner from Sydney on the 18th October 1914 on H.M.A.T. A8, Argyllshire bound for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. He fell ill on the 19th July 1915 at the Dardanelles, treated at 3rd Field Ambulance, suffering from enteric fever and pyrexia. He was invalided to Malta on Hospital Ship Neuralia and admitted into a hospital on the 25th July 1915, where he died the same day. He was laid to rest the following day by Reverend H.P.Doad.

At rest in Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot B Row II Grave 6