William Herbert PAPPIN

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PAPPIN, William Herbert

Service Numbers:	2002, 2002A
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	11th Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Williamstown, South Australia, 3 October 1877
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm labourer and driver
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 31 December 1916, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Mount Crawford Roll of Honor, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Williamstown Mount Crawford Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

27 Jan 1916:	Involvement Private, 2002, 8th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hymettus embarkation_ship_number: A1 public_note: ''
27 Jan 1916:	Embarked Private, 2002, 8th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Hymettus, Melbourne
31 Dec 1916:	Involvement Gunner, 2002A, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2002A awm_unit: 11th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1916-12-31

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Biography contributed by Kathleen Emms

William Herbert Pappin was the son of William Green Pappin and his second wife Jane Wilson (Gardiner) who were farmers near Williamstown, South Australia.

William was the third child of seven born to William and Jane Pappin.

He had moved to Victoria and enlisted in Melbourne.

He is memorialised on a double headstone in the Williamstown, SA Cemetery with his sister Henrietta 'Hetty' Mary Pappin (3.4.1885 - 1.5.1913)

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