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SIMMONS, William Alexander
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 2652 |
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Enlisted: | 29 February 1916, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps |
Born: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 1897 |
Home Town: | Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Bunbury, Western Australia, 1969, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
Biography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Charles Edward Simmons and Ellen Simmons nee Ferris of Bunbury, WA
Commenced return to Australia on 29 February 1919 aboard HT Ascanius but was admitted to hospital at Port Said. He later re-embarked HT Oxfordshire on 10 July 1919 disembarking on 4 August 1919
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
During 1921c William married Vera P. Griffin in Wellington, WA