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OLIVE, William Major
Personal Details
Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
Last Unit: | 5th Field Company Engineers |
Born: | 25 August 1890, place not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
Died: | Killed In Action, France, 23 April 1916, aged 25 years |
Cemetery: |
Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension INSCRIPTION BELOVED AND ONLY SON OF THOMAS AND ELLA OLIVE FATHER INTO THY HANDS Grave I.J. 14. |
Memorials: | Fitzroy St. Mark's Anglican Church Memorial Window, Kew War Memorial |
Service History
World War 1 Service
24 Nov 1915: | Involvement Lieutenant, 5th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
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24 Nov 1915: | Embarked Lieutenant, 5th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Lieutenant Olive was 25 and the son of Henry Thomas and Ella Ada Olive, of "Surbiton," Studley Park, Kew, Victoria, Australia.