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TREMBATH, William Thomas Leonard
| Service Number: | 594 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 43rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Moonta, South Australia, September 1894 |
| Home Town: | Moonta, Copper Coast, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fitter |
| Died: | Natural causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 24 February 1977 |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Cremation Date: 25 Feb 1977. Interment Date: 13 Jul 1977. Interment Status: Removed |
| Memorials: | Moonta Corporation of The Town of Moonta Roll of Honour, Moonta Loyal Hamley Lodge I.O.O.F. Manchester Unity Pictorial Roll of Honour, Moonta Mines Male Voice Choir Roll of Honour, Moonta Mines Public School Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 594, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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| 9 Jun 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 594, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 594, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
| 31 Jul 1917: | Wounded Corporal, 594, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, GSW (arm) | |
| 9 Jul 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 594, 43rd Infantry Battalion |
A MOONTA HERO
Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1910 - 1924), Saturday 8 June 1918, page 7
A MOONTA HERO.
Among the soldiers who are to return to Adelaide to-day is 594, Lance-Sergeant William Thomas Leonard Trembath, M.M., 43rd Battalion. A laborer by occupation, he enlisted in Adelaide on January 25, 1916. He was born at Moonta, and at the time of his enlistment was 21 years of age. He had previously been in the senior cadets. He won his Military Medal in France. At Armentieres, on the night of February 5, 1917, he was in charge of a Lewis gun. Ascertaining that a member of a scouting patrol operating in front of his sector had been wounded by enemy machine gun fire, he engaged the enemy's gun from over the parapet, thus enabling the wounded man to be brought back. Though himself exposed to heavy fire he succeeded in silencing the enemy's gun and then crawled out to the front of the wire and assisted another scout, Private Michael Aukudinow, who was exhausted, to carry the wounded man back to the lines. The work, was done in bright moonlight. Sergeant Trembath, who is 24 years of age, is the youngest son of the late Arthur Trembath and Mrs. N. Dunstan. His father, who was a popular all-round athlete, was killed in the Bro-ken Hill South mining disaster in 1895. Sergeant Trembath was a keen sports-
man and a noted footballer.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124549921
Submitted 22 July 2018 by Al Staunton
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