HURST, William
| Service Number: | 2819 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Ireland, 4 June 1878 |
| Home Town: | Narrogin, Narrogin, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Narrogin, 19 July 1945, aged 67 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 2819, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: RMS Mongolia embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 17 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 2819, 10th Light Horse Regiment, RMS Mongolia, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Greg Sharon
Wiliam was borm in County Tyrone in Ireland. He emigrated to Australia and lived in Warooka in South Australia. He married Martha Florence Dunstall in 1902 at Yorketown, South Australia. He became a mine owner at Lake Darlot in Western Australia and then took up farming at Narrogin.
Enlisting in April 1916 William served with the 10th Light Horse (19th Reinforcements). He embarked at Fremantle aboard HMAT Mongolia on the 17th of July 1916 for the Middle East. During his service he received a gun shot wound to his left thigh in April 1917 and returned to Australia in August 1918.
He went back to wheat and sheep farming and on occassion was helped on his farm by his brother in law Charles Guy Dunstall who had served with the 16th Battalion. In the Daily News, Perth for December 16 1935 it was reported that at the Elder Smith & Co. wool sales, William achieved a very good price for his wool clip.
William died in 1945 and his wife then sold the farm and moved to Perth where she became a housekeeper. They had no children