GRAINGER, William
| Service Number: | 1076 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 42nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1879 |
| Home Town: | Ipswich, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | House Painter |
| Died: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 20 December 1966, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Ipswich General Cemetery, Qld |
| Memorials: | Booval War Memorial, Ipswich Soldier's Memorial Hall Great War |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1076, 42nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 5 Jun 1916: | Involvement Private, 1076, 42nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 5 Jun 1916: | Embarked Private, 1076, 42nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 13 Feb 1917: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1076, 42nd Infantry Battalion, per HT Ulysses | |
| 23 May 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1076, 42nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
William, the eldest of eleven children of Henry Grainger (born 1855 in Lanarkshire, Scotland) - a Hammerman - and Margaret Reid (born 1858 in Lanarkshire, Scotland), was six years of age when he arrived in Brisbane QLD with his parents on board the Chyebassa in 1885.
William was a House Painter at Booval in Ipswich, QLD in 1906 when he married Edith Wilcock (born 1878 in Yorkshire, England). William and Edith raised their family in Ipswich, QLD where William was employed as a House Painter. He enlisted in the AIF in February 1916 and served as a Private (Service No:1076) with 42nd Infantry Battalion until his Discharge in 1917.
In the late 1920s William moved his family to Manly, QLD where he worked as a House Painter - his two sons John and William worked with him until they enlisted in WWII - John with the RAAF (Service No:9375) and William Jnr with the Army (Service No:QX4526). Following Edith's death in 1959, William moved to Brisbane where he died in 1966.