DINGLEY, William
| Service Number: | 4394 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Lancashire, England, 1897 |
| Home Town: | Mascot, Botany Bay, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Locomotive Workshop Blacksmith |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 9 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Haymarket Railways Blacksmiths Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4394, 20th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4394, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
William DINGLEY, (Service Number 4394) born in Lancashire in 1897, joined the NSWGR as a shop boy at Eveleigh locomotive workshops in March 1915. In November, when he enlisted in the AIF at Casula, aged 18, he gave his ‘trade or calling’ as ‘blacksmith’.
Submitted 16 June 2023 by John Oakes
Biography contributed by John Oakes
William DINGLEY (Service Number 4394) born in Lancashire in 1897. He joined the NSWGR as a shop boy at Eveleigh locomotive workshops in March 1915. He enlisted in the AIF at Casula in November, aged 18. He gave his occupation as ‘blacksmith’.
He embarked from Sydney in April 1916. He was in England by July. He was Absent Without Leave for one day from camp: he lost four days’ pay as a result. In September he was sent to France and joined his battalion there in the following month. One month later, he was wounded in action. He spent 10 days in hospital with ‘shell shock’. He re-joined his unit on Christmas Day, 1916.
On 9 October 1917 he was reported as missing in action. This was later amended to ‘killed in action’. He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
- based on notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board