EDWARDS, William Hugh
| Service Number: | 3308 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Holyhead, Anglesey, England, January 1893 |
| Home Town: | Carrington, Great Lakes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shunter |
| Died: | New Lambton, New South Wales, Australia, 21 July 1937, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-C NW. 13. |
| Memorials: | Carrington Connolly Park War Memorial Gates |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3308, 18th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Dec 1915: | Involvement Private, 3308, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Dec 1915: | Embarked Private, 3308, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 3 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3308, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD | |
| 3 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3308, 3rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
87 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 22nd July 1937, Private William Hugh Edwards, 3rd Battalion (Reg No-3308), Shunter (Railway Department, Port Waratah), from Little Gipps Street, Carrington, New South Wales and 22 Mackie Avenue, New Lambton, N.S.W., father of three-(Ronald, died 22.12.1926, New Lambton, N.S.W., age 18 months, a Bud in Heaven, sleeping here - William & Gwyneth), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 44. BAPTIST-C NW. 13.
Born at Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom about 1893 to Evan Thomas and Catherine Fanny Edwards from Holyhead, North Wales; husband of Gertrude Edwards nee Cobley, married 1919, Newcastle, N.S.W., died 4.6.1956, New Lambton, N.S.W., age 59, William enlisted on the 6th August 1915 with the 18th Battalion at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Farewell social and the presentation of a pocket wallet to William at the Carrington Methodist Church. Also farewelled was George Stanley Mann, railway fettler from Little Denison Street, Carrington, New South Wales, enlisted 18.9.1915, DOW 28.10.1918, Battle of Amiens, age 25, resting at Llanelly (St Ellyw) Churchyard, No 2 Extension, Wales, United Kingdom (South Wales non-conformist gravesite), memorialised at parent's gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery - METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NW. 52.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A29 Suevic on the 20th December 1915.
Admitted to hospital 5.11.1916 (influenza), 16.10.1916 (not stated), 15.12.1916 (not stated), 28.12.1917 (not stated), 15.2.1918 (scabies).
Wounded in action - 10.5.1916 (GSW left thigh), 16.8.1916 (shell shock), 14.4.1918 (not stated).
Granted Special Leave to England from 12.5.1918 to 4.6.1918 and 25.12.1918 to 12.2.1919.
Commenced return to Australia 20.4.1919.
William arrived home on the 11th June 1919, being discharged on the 3rd August 1919.
Mr. Edwards’s name has been inscribed on the Carrington Citizens' Memorial Gates, Carrington Municipal District Roll of Honor, Carrington Methodist Church Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not inscribed on the Port Waratah Locomotive Depot Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at William’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 21.7.1937.
Plaque in New South Wales Garden of Remembrance.
Officially commemorated 6.9.1937 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
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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