William Leslie DAVIES

Badge Number: S14914
S14914

DAVIES, William Leslie

Service Number: 9613
Enlisted: 22 October 1915, Adelaide, South Australia
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 11th Field Company Engineers
Born: MIle End, South Australia, 9 December 1888
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Draftsman
Died: Gawler Railway, Gawler, South Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered
Cemetery: West Terrace Cemetery (General)
Road 1, Path 22W. Site 16
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World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia
31 May 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 9613, 11th Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
31 May 1916: Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 9613, 11th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Suevic, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 9613
7 Oct 1919: Discharged AIF WW1

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Biography

Unit - 5th Field Company Engineers

Rank - Sapper

21 June 1918 - Wounded in action - gassed

31 March 1919 - Returned to Australia on board Khyber

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Son of Henry and Harriet Davies (nee Drew) of Mile End. On 11 December 1919 William married Margaret Clare Humphreys in the Rising Sun Hotel, Port Wakefield. His residence at the time of death was Evanston, SouthAustralia