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MCCULLY, William
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 4486 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 19th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 11 January 1877 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 3 May 1917, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery On memorial - no known grave, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, HAC Cemetery, Ecoust St Mein, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 9 Apr 1916: | Involvement 4486, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :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 4486, 19th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Sydney | |
| 3 May 1917: | Involvement Private, 4486, 19th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4486 awm_unit: 19 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-05-03 |
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William Mccully was born in Scotland, though his parents came from Ireland. He came to Australia around 1910 and was joined later by his then fiance Agnes MacNaught Scott and they married in 1913. He enlisted in 1915.