HULL, William Albert
| Service Numbers: | 7029, 7069 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 September 1917, Previously enlisted January 1916 (Reg No-120, 35th Battalion). Discharged 6.6.1916, unlikely to become an efficient soldier. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | South Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, March 1890 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, Australia, 15 January 1924 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-80. 79. |
| Memorials: | Cooks Hill St John's Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Sep 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7029, 18th Infantry Battalion, Previously enlisted January 1916 (Reg No-120, 35th Battalion). Discharged 6.6.1916, unlikely to become an efficient soldier. | |
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| 19 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 7069, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Dec 1917: | Embarked Private, 7069, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Sydney | |
| 1 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7069, 18th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, not resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery.
97 years ago today, on the Wednesday afternoon of the 16th January 1924, Private William Albert Hull, 18th Battalion (Reg No-120 and 7069), labourer (hooker on, Bullock Island, N.S.W.), from Denison Street, Carrington, New South Wales and Ingall Street, Mayfield, N.S.W. and 2 of Corlette Street, Cooks Hill, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 33. ANGLICAN 1-80. 79.
Born at South Fitzroy, Victoria 1890 to William Richard and Julia Hull nee Hudson (ANGLICAN 1-41. 53.); husband of Mildred Muriel Hull nee Matters (married 1914, Islington, N.S.W., died 1937).
William first enlisted January 1916 (Reg No-120, 35th Battalion) at Newcastle, N.S.W. Discharged 6.6.1916, absent without leave, unlikely to become an efficient soldier.
Reenlisted-22.9.1917, Newcastle, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 29.3.1918 (indigestion), William was invalided home August 1918 suffering from chronic gastritis, and was discharged medically unfit on the 1st January 1919.
Mr Hull’s name has been inscribed on the Cooks Hill St. John's Anglican Church Honor Roll (photo, unveiled on the 12th February 1922, 86 names inscribed, 24 Fallen). Name not inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates or the Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor or the NSW Govt Railways and Tramways Roll of Honour, 1914-1919.
William married Mildred Muriel Matters at St. Mark's Anglican Church, Islington on the 9/3/1914. Mildred's parents were John James Wells Matters and Eliza Rebecca Cunningham, born Armidale 1893.
Mildred ran a boarding house at Darby Street, Cooks Hill after her husband’s death. Apparently a 3 storey weatherboard building. A lot of the boarders were workers from Walsh Island Plant (resource “Our Family Matters” by Kenneth G Elderidge). Then the Depression affected living. Apparently made a living baking and the children would sell the pies and cakes around Newcastle. She married a Horace Tallentyre in 1934.
The family moved to Sydney and Mildred died there in 1937 and is buried at Rookwood.
I placed a wooden cross adorned with poppies May 2020 at William’s unmarked grave to restore some honour and dignity to this former 1st A.I.F. soldier of The Great War.
An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque submitted May 2020, declined July 2020.
Mr Hull will be remembered with a Plaque courtesy of the Forgotten Diggers Headstone Project.
Service record indicates Mr Hull not receiving Service Medals John Gillam.
Lest We Forget.
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