Private Jack Ainsworth
- Rank
- Private
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1915 Egypt, Gallipoli
- Service number
- 1451
- Unit
- 16 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Gallipoli, Turkey
- Date of death
- 2 May 1915
- Age
- 21
- Plaque number
- L291A
- Co-located plaques
- L291 - PTE Herbert Ainsworth
- Dedicated by
- His family on 16 November 2013
- More information
Biography presented during the plaque dedication:
Private Jack Ainsworth of 16th Australian Infantry Battalion (also known as Elias Edwin William Ainsworth) was born to Edwin and Frances Megerney. Jack's father died when he was one year old, and his mother remarried to William Ainsworth who was a widower. Altogether there were nine boys and seven girls in the family and they resided at Graham Street, Port Melbourne. Jack attended Graham Street primary school. The family came to Perth in 1905 and lived in the Maylands area until 1911 when they took up land at Ajana, north of Northampton.
Jack worked as a teamster before enlisting at Blackboy Hill Military Camp in November 1914. In February 1915, after finishing training, he sailed from Fremantle aboard HMAT Itonus bound for Gallipoli via Egypt arriving there in April.
Private Jack Ainsworth, regimental number 1451 of 16 Battalion was killed in action at Gallipoli on 2 May 1915. He was twenty-one years of age.
His official memorial is his grave in the Quinn's Post Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, where his headstone has no personal inscription. His Place of Association is Western Australia.
He is the step brother of Private Herbert James Ainsworth (killed in action).