William Ernest TRENORDEN

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TRENORDEN, William Ernest

Service Number:	1044
Enlisted:	4 January 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Summertown, Adelaide Hills, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Gardener
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 11 April 1917, age not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Summertown Cemetery Memorial Arch Gates, Uraidla & Districts Roll of Honour 1, Uraidla War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

4 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1
23 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1044, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
23 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1044, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
11 Apr 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1044, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1044 awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-04-11
Date unknown:	Involvement 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières

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Biography

Father Francis Trenorden and Mother (nee _______)
lived at

Next of kin (cousins) in service:
3113     Harold Percival Baker
             3rd Light Horse
             Returned

5389    Harry Hewish
             48^th Infantry Battalion - Bullecourt, France
             kia 12/10/1917
             NO known grave
Commemorated at The Ypres (Menin Gates), Villers-Bretonneux, France

31599 Arthur Ernest Saunderson
2nd Field Artillery Brigade
Returned 16/6/1919

WWII
SX7174 Captain Ivor Henry Thomas Hele
became Official War Artist

Described on enlisting as 22 years old; single;
Methodist.

4/1/1915 Enlisted in Adelaide

23/6/1915 Embarked from Outer Harbour, Port Adelaide on board HMAT Borda (A30)
Private with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment

Sept 1915 Arrived Heliopolis, Egypt

Nov 1915 contracted typhoid and was returned to England

Dec 1915 transferred to the 16th Battalion and joined them in France

11/4/1917 killed in action at Bullecourt, France (25 years of age.)

Medals:

Sourced and submitted by Julianne T Ryan. 20/11/2014. Lest we forget.

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