Phillip Edgar WILLIAMS

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WILLIAMS, Phillip Edgar

Service Number:	938
Enlisted:	17 February 1916, Kadina, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Mintaro, South Australia, 3 October 1897
Home Town:	Mintaro, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia
Schooling:	Mintaro and Prospect State Schools
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 20 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Mintaro Roll of Honour WW1, Mintaro and District War Memorial

World War 1 Service

17 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Kadina, South Australia
12 Aug 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 938, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ballarat embarkation_ship_number: A70 public_note: ''
12 Aug 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 938, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ballarat, Adelaide
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 938, 9th Machine Gun Company, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 938 awm_unit: 9th Australian Machine Gun Company awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04

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Biography

"LATE PTE. P. E. WILLIAMS.

Pte. P. E. Williams, only Son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Williams, of Mintaro, was killed in action in France an October 4, the day after his twentieth birthday. He enlisted in the 43rd Battalion on March, 1916, embarked on August 12 for the war, and arrived in England on September 30. From Salisbury Plain he was transferred to France at the end of November. He was attached to the 9th Machine Gun Company. Once wounded, he remained on duty. Deceased was born at Mintaro, and spent practically the whole of his life there. He was of a bright and happy disposition, and was the youngest of a family of six children." - from the Adelaide Observer 10 Nov 1917 (nla.gov.au)

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