Henry Stuart Homer WILLIAMS

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WILLIAMS, Henry Stuart Homer

Service Number:	3716
Enlisted:	26 February 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	35th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Nebo Queensland, Australia, 1892
Home Town:	Nebo, Isaac, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Died of wounds, France, 6 April 1918
Cemetery:	Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France Plot I, Row G, Grave 28
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mackay Cenotaph, Mackay Old Town Hall Honour Roll, Nebo Shire WW1 Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

26 Feb 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3716, 53rd Infantry Battalion
2 Aug 1917:	Involvement Private, 3716, 53rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '19' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: ''
2 Aug 1917:	Embarked Private, 3716, 53rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Sydney
6 Apr 1918:	Involvement Private, 3716, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3716 awm_unit: 35th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-04-06

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Allan and Harriet Rose WILLIAMS, of Nebo, Queensland

Henry Stuart Homer Williams (1892-1918), known as Stuart, was the youngest son of Allan Williams (d.1931) and Harriot Williams (nee Homer), and brother of Edward Homer Williams (1885-1915), Edith Williams, Allan Crowther Williams (1889-1976), and Elsie Williams. In 1917, he was working as a stockman on his parents' property, Burrenbring, near Nebo, Queensland, when he followed his brother, Edward, and volunteered for service in the artillery in World War I. The unmarried Williams went to England, then to France where he transferred to the infantry as a member of the 38th Battalion, AIF, in response to an urgent call for volunteers. In April 1918, near Villiers-Brettoneux, he died of gunshot wounds to the head.

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