GALLEN, William Lawrence
| Service Number: | 4123 |
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| Enlisted: | 24 August 1915, Enlisted at Newcastle, NSW |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 20th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Millers Forest, New South Wales, 6 January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 8 April 1918, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Raymond Terrace War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4123, 20th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Newcastle, NSW | |
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| 11 Mar 1916: | Involvement Private, 4123, 20th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Mar 1916: | Embarked Private, 4123, 20th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Orsova, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
Son of Patrick Joseph and Julia Gallen of Sixth Street, Adamstown, NSW later of Eagleton, NSW
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 8th April 1918, Private William Lawrence Gallen, 20th Battalion (Reg No-4123), labourer from Sixth Street, Adamstown, New South Wales or Miller’s Forest, N.S.W., was Killed in Action at Hangard Wood, Northern France, age 27. Cause of death unknown.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Miller’s Forest, New South Wales on the 6th January 1892 as William Lawrence Carmody? to Patrick Joseph (died 26.3.1935, 6 Searle Street, Ryde, N.S.W., age 74, buried at Field of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, N.S.W., no memorial inscription, and Julia Gallen nee Fitzgibbon (died 17.11.1932, Mater Hospital, North Sydney, N.S.W., age 71, mother of 3?, sleeping at Field of Mars Cemetery, Ryde, N.S.W., from Sixth Street, Adamstown, N.S.W. and Eagleton, N.S.W. (1918), Anne A registered as mother). Younger sister Annie May Gallen (born 2.5.1895, East Maitland, N.S.W., died 10.10.1917, Newcastle Hospital, N.S.W., age 22, sleeping here, Will enlisted on the 24th August 1915 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A67 Orsova on the 11th March 1916.
Granted leave to England from 4.9.1917 to 14.9.1917.
Admitted to hospital 25.10.1917 (myalgia, slight).
Unfortunately, no Roll of Honour notices located.
Mr. Gallen’s name has been inscribed on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France.
Many thanks to Thierry Grier for the Memorial photos.
Place of Association - Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, Australia.
Will’s name has also been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial, Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor, Raymond Terrace Soldiers' Memorial, Raymond Terrace RSL Memorial, Miller’s Forest Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of younger sister Annie May Gallen in remembrance of her brother’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. CATHOLIC 1-08. 79.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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