OUTTRAM, William
| Service Numbers: | 2211, 2009 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 19 March 1915, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 58th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Digby, Victoria, Australia, March 1882 |
| Home Town: | Digby, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Digby State School |
| Occupation: | Saw-miller |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 26 November 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Quarry Cemetery, Montauban |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Melbourne, Victoria | |
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| 25 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2211, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
| 4 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2009, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
| 4 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2009, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne | |
| 26 Nov 1916: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 2009, 58th Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2009 awm_unit: 58th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-11-26 |
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"On the 12th March 1915......... a young Australian man by the name of William Outtram from Digby Victoria enlisted in the AIF and headed to Gallipoli with Australia's 5th Division contingent to fight for King and country. After surviving the events of 1915 at Gallipoli, William suffered the scourge of the trenches - amoebic dysentery. Evacuated on a hospital ship in December 1915 he was returned to Australia. Not content to have said, I have done my bit...... re enlisted and was shipped of to France with the 58th Battalion arriving on the 30th September. He had avoided Poziers but still had the horrors of a wet battlefield bogged down in trench warfare and constant bombardments.
During the Battle for Flers he was wounded by machine gun fire on the left side and evacuated to the 13th Field hospital where he died on the 26th November 1916. He was buried in a quiet corner of original Quarry Cemetery. He was later reinterred in the Commonwealth War Graves Quarry Cemetery just outside Montauban in Picardy. A cemetery plaque was found by a potato farmer in a field n 1985. It was probably discarded when William was reburied after the end of the war.
Lest we Forget! - SOURCE (www.storiesofthesomme.com)
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