BONSALL, George William
| Service Number: | 59231 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 May 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements |
| Born: | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 3 July 1897 |
| Home Town: | Beecroft Peninsula, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Sydney Technical High School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | 27 July 1963, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW East Terrace 3 Wall 3 |
| Memorials: | Beecroft Public School WW1 Honour Roll, Sydney Technical High School WW1 Roll Of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 8 May 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 59231, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements | |
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| 17 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 59231, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked Private, 59231, 1st to 15th (NSW) Reinforcements, HMAT Borda, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sydney Technical High School
George William Bonsall was born July 3rd, 1897. He lived in Beecroft Peninsula, Shoalhaven Shire, New South Wales where he would then attend Sydney Technical High School in 1911(1). He worked as a clerk when he had enlisted as a private in the military.(2) He was known for his caring nature and was highly regarded by people in both his primary and Sydney Tech. His Primary School records show that he had been very helpful and cooperative, contributing to his schools’ fete raising money for the Belgian fund. Before attending Sydney Technical High School in 1911, his father, Samuel Bonsall, had sadly passed away(3).While at Sydney Tech he had enjoyed engineering. (4). He left high school school in 1915.
Bonsall enlisted on the 4th June 1918. Records show that he embarked on 17th July 1918 (5) as a private, in the 12th reinforcement from New bound for the UK. His enlistment papers show that George William was a healthy man, at 5 foot 4 120 pounds and had his inoculation from any disease on the 1st of July 1918.
Bonsall left Australia on 17the July 1918 arriving in England two months later in September. He completed training at Fovant in England. After the war ended he proceeded to France from Southhampton in January 1919 to assist with the clean-up.
After World War One, George Bonsall married Ethel D Marshall, in 1930 at New South Wales. His hobbies and employment weren’t stated anywhere in the records, although he had enjoyed engineering in his time at Sydney Tech so we can assume that he had taken on an engineering pathway. He passed at the age of 66 on the 23rd of July 1967.
References
(1)Virtual War memories
(2)National archives of australia record search
(3)George William Bonsall google drive school fete
(4)National archives of australia record search
(5)National archives of australia record search pdf file
(6)Australian War Memorial
(7)George William Bonsall Google drive, google doc
Bibliography
Ken Stevenson, Research on Google Drive
WW1 Honour board on google drive
https://www.warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au/private-george-william-bonsall
https://austcemindex.com/inscription?id=15819040
https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/281486
https://aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=26814
file:///C:/Users/61450/Downloads/NAA_ItemNumber3098495%20(5).pdf
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