William Alexander PATTERSON

PATTERSON, William Alexander

Service Number: 4463
Enlisted: 18 August 1914
Last Rank: Lance Corporal
Last Unit: 8th Infantry Battalion
Born: Buangor, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town: Daylesford, Hepburn, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: School Teacher
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium - Broodseinde Ridege, 4 October 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (‘B’ Coy - buried between road running through D.28° and main road in D.29 (Sht 28) few hundred yards SE of Zonnebeke ), Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)
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World War 1 Service

18 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4463, 8th Infantry Battalion
23 Apr 1916: Involvement Private, 4463, 23rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Malwa embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
23 Apr 1916: Embarked Private, 4463, 23rd Infantry Battalion, RMS Malwa, Melbourne
4 Oct 1917: Involvement Lance Corporal, 4463, 8th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4463 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-10-04

Family

Son of Margaret and William
Brother of Oscar, Mary, Margaret, George, William, Charles, Henry
Died at 23
From Buangor, Victoria

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