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Claire Trevorrow.
On Anzac Day I am thinking of my great uncle, Sgt William Head, No. 65. 7th Batt'n, B Co. KIA, at the Gallipoli Landings up at the Fishermans Huts. He has no known grave and his death was a source of profound and lasting grief for his parents, siblings and my grandmother, who never forgot her brother. He is pictured on the left in this photo, with his best friend, Stan Jones, who was in the 8th Batt'n, and who survived Gallipoli, to die on the 21/9/1917 in Belgium, and who also has no known grave. I laid a wreath in Stan's honour at the Menin Gate last August. Two bonzer Boys from Ferntree Gully, lost far from home Remembered this Anzac Day. Lest We Forget.

William was my maternal grandmother, Deborah Aspinall's much loved brother. His parents were Rowland and Isabella Head, he had 3 other brothers who also enlisted in WW1. Fawcett, Rowland and Gordon Head. He also had a younger sister, Isabella. William and my grandmother Deb, were a year apart in age and were particularly close growing up in Upper Ferntree Gully, in the Dandenong Ranges where the family had the Head Luncheon rooms and the Post Office. The family moved to Surrey Hills in 1912 and were living there when Will enlisted as soon as he could after the was was declared. He had served for several years in the Citizens Forces prior to the war hence he was a Sergeant at the young age of 20.
He turned 21 while in Egypt in Feb, just prior to the troops being sent to Gallipoli, and he was killed in action at the landing and his body was last seen where they landed at the Fishermans Hut. Sadly, like so many he has no known grave, which was a source of great sorrow for his parents and my grandmother. My great grandmother died of a heart attack during a church service in November 1921, which was a service commemorating the Armistice, which for her reminded her of the loss of Will and the return of 3 sons, one of whom had poor health for the rest of his short life. My grandmother was pregnant with the first grandchild and said her mother died of a broken heart. My late parents were the first family to visit Gallipoli, and my husband and I the next family, and I contue to try and find out what happened to our William. Lest we Forget, and we don't forget our William. Claire Trevorrow, Bittern, Victoria.