William Walter RANDALL

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RANDALL, William Walter

Service Number:	3409
Enlisted:	27 April 1917
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	41st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Laidley, Queensland, Australia, 15 November 1880
Home Town:	Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Southport, Queensland, Australia, 26 November 1927, aged 47 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Southport General Cemetery, Gold Coast
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World War 1 Service

27 Apr 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3409, 41st Infantry Battalion
14 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 3409, 41st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
14 Jun 1917:	Embarked Private, 3409, 41st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
12 Jun 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3409, 41st Infantry Battalion, per HT Themistocles
11 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3409, 41st Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private William Walter Randall (Service No:3409) enlisted in the AIF on 27 April 1917 and was attached to 41st Infantry Battalion when he embarked from Sydney on 14 June 1917 on board HMAT Hororata A20. Private Randall embarked for the RTA on 12 June 1919 on board HT Themistocles and was Discharged on 11 September 1919.

Born in 1880 at Laidley on the Darling Downs in QLD, William was the eldest of eleven children of James Robert Randall (b1855 in Norfolk, England) and Mary Jane Masters (b1860 in Dorset, England). James was an Able Seaman (served as an Apprentice in 1861 on board the John III and in 1867 was an Able Seaman on board the Florence Nightingale). Mary Jane was a Domestic Sevant when she immigrated in 1877, arriving in Rockhampton QLD on board the Scottish Hero. James was a Labourer in 1878 when he and Mary married in Laidley, QLD where they settled and raised their family.

William worked as a Sawyer and Labourer in Laidley QLD and in 1909 married Lydia Caroline Boughen (b1891 at Rosewood on the Darling Downs, QLD). William and Lydia settled in Laidley where William worked as a Labourer and Sawyer, and following his Service in WWI, the family settled at Southport, QLD where William was a Labourer until his death in 1927. Lydia died in 1983.

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