BINNS, William James
| Service Number: | 63357 |
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| Enlisted: | 2 August 1918 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St Mary’s, Tasmania, Australia, 8 January 1899 |
| Home Town: | Fingal, Break O'Day, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 3 May 1971, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 2 Aug 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 63357, 1st Depot Battalion |
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World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1918: | Involvement Private, 63357, 1st to 3rd (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Zealandic embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 5 Oct 1918: | Embarked Private, 63357, 1st to 3rd (WA) and (TAS) Reinforcements, SS Zealandic, Melbourne | |
| 3 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 63357, 12th Infantry Battalion, ex England per Leicestershire | |
| 3 Oct 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 63357, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private William James (aka Cecil William) Binns (Service No:63357) enlisted in the AIF on 2 August 1918 with A Coy 1st Depot Battalion. He was attached to 3 General Service Reinforcements (Tasmania) when he embarked from Melbourne for London on 5 October 1918 on board SS Zealandic. Private Binns was hospitalised with Influenza in London, and embarked with 12th Infantry Battalion for the RTA on 3 May 1919 on board the Leicestershire. Private Binns was Discharged on 3 October 1919.
Born in 1899 at St Mary's in Tasmania, Bill was the eldest of nine children of Charles Binns (b1867 in Fingal, Tasmania) and Georgenia Lavenia Dunn (b1870 at Fingal, TAsmania). Charles (a Labourer) and Georgenia married in 1898 in Fingal, Tasmania. In 1915 Charles was a Labourer with Don Tramways Works in Devonport when he abandoned his wife and children and left for QLD, where he worked as a Labourer in Mackay and Charters Towers.
Bill worked as a Miner in St Mary's prior to his service in WWI, and returned there to work as a Miner following his Discharge. He then worked as a Labourer in Evandale, and in 1940 in Launceston he married Harriet Pearl Hodgetts (b1905 in Launceston, Tasmania). Bill and Harriet settled in Launceston where Bill worked as a Labourer. Bill died in 1971 and Harriet in 1994.