William Henry FLETCHER

FLETCHER, William Henry

Service Number: 1664
Enlisted: 3 March 1916
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 48th Infantry Battalion
Born: Mount Gambier, South Australia, 12 July 1883
Home Town: Torrensville, South Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Cook
Died: Tuberculosis, Keswick Military Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, 4 August 1918, aged 35 years
Cemetery: Payneham Cemetery, South Australia
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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

William Henry Fletcher returned to Australia 31 October 1917 and was discharged as medically unfit with severe TB on 27 June 1918. He died at Keswick five weeks after discharge and does not appear to be any Roll of Honour. He left a wife and 10 year old son.

His brother, George Bailey Fletcher served in the Boer War and in WW1 with the 9th Light Horse Regiment.