NAME Ernest Henry CHURCHER
BORN 15 January 1888
DIED 1972
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 435
UNIT 4th Battalion
ENLISTED Sydney 22 August 1914
DISCHARGED Sydney 10 February 1919 – Medically Unfit – amputation of right leg – Awarded Military Medal

William Henry Jarvis and Ernest Henry Churcher obtained a block together to go into a share-farming arrangement. The block in question was situated at Maraylya near Windsor.  The purchase price was £425 of which £106 had been repaid as of 2 May 1921.[1]

When applying for an advance the two men were advised on 8 April 1921 ‘that no applications for assistance in poultry farming outside group settlements shall be entertained unless the holding has been purchased under the Closer Settlement Promotion Act or the settler is the owner of the property free of encumbrance’.[2]

There is little information in the file about Ernest Churcher.

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7242 No. 7374], W H Jarvis and E H Churcher to Director SS Branch, 2 May 1921.

[2] Ibid, A.A. Watson to W. H. Jarvis and C.H. Churcher 8 April 1921.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers Settlement loan files; [12/7242 No. 7374] Ernest Henry Churcher.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers (Ernest Henry Churcher) online: http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=3248823&I=1&SE=1