Bert Herbert WILLIAMS

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WILLIAMS, Bert Herbert

Service Number:	4314
Enlisted:	15 September 1915, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 22 January 1887
Home Town:	Noggerup, Donnybrook-Balingup, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Baker
Died:	Natural causes, Mandurah, Western Australia, 2 February 1965, aged 78 years
Cemetery:	Mandurah General Cemetery, Western Australia Anglican Lot 1 - Grave 058
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World War 1 Service

15 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4314, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
17 Jan 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4314, 11th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
17 Jan 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 4314, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Fremantle
15 Aug 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4314, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières
26 Sep 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 4314, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)

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Biography contributed by Shelley Ashworth

Son of Ellen May and John Robert Williams

On the 14th August 1916 in the battle of Moquet Farm France, Bert recieved a gun shot wound to his right arm. He was taken to the general hospital in Etaples Rouen. Bert spent 6 months in the Birmingham hospital before returning to Australia. On return to Australia he married Edith Pitt from Denmark in Western Australia. They had 8 children, 2 boys and 6 girls.

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