WILLIAMS, Herbert
Service Number: | W14562 |
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Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
Last Rank: | Sergeant |
Last Unit: | HQ Western Command Army Service Corps (AMF) |
Born: | Coolgardie, Western Australia, 3 March 1903 |
Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Builder's Labourer |
Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 6 April 1980, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia MCB-280189-Q9Y4N4 KC00063363 Garden of Remembrance |
Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
Date unknown: | Involvement Sergeant, W14562, HQ Western Command Army Service Corps (AMF) |
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Sergeant Herbert Williams (Service No:W14562) enlisted in the ACMF on 14 September 1940 and was attached to HQ Western Command (Hygeine Section) when he was Discharged on 7 December 1945.
Born in 1903 in Coolgardie WA, Herbert was the second of eight children of Richard Walters Williams (b1870 at Pleasant Creek in Stawell, Victoria) and May Emma Maria Gilham (b1877 at Pleasant Creek in Stawell, Victoria). Richard (a Coach Proprietor) and May married in 1901 in Coolgardie WA and lived in Coolgardie, Wagin, Perth and Jindong nr Busselton where Richard worked as a Labourer, Settler and Prospector.
Herbert was a Builder's Labourer in Perth in 1926 when he married Phyllis Emily Fields (b1907 in Perth, WA). Herbert and Phyllis settled in Perth and, following his Discharge, Herbert worked as a Government Employee/Civil Servant. Phyllis died in 1978 and Herbert in 1980.