EVANS, William Thomas
| Service Number: | 122 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 August 1914, Sydney, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Sans Scouci, NSW, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Hurstville, Kogarah, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Goulburn Public School |
| Occupation: | Printer |
| Died: | 2 October 1963, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | New South Wales Garden of Remembrance (Rookwood Necropolis), Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail Record of War Service |
World War 1 Service
| 26 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 122, 3rd Infantry Battalion, Sydney, NSW | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 122, 3rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 122, 3rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Eldest son of George EVANS of Summer Hill, NSW, William was born at Kogarah in 1896 and educated at the Public School at Goulburn, where his parents resided for some time. He joined the machine department of the Sydney Morning Herald at the beginning of 1914.
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted, when barely 18 years of age, as a Signaller in the 3rd Battalion. He took part in the original landing on Gallipoli, and participated in the Lone Pine and other engagements. On account of illness he was invalided to Malta in 1915, and was afterwards transferred to the 55th Battlaion, with which he fought in France for two years, experiencing all the discomforts of the winter campaign on the Somme in 1916. He was engaged in a number of actions, uncluding Fromelles. In February, 1918, he became ill with trench fever, and after several months in hospital returned to Australia in September 1918.
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