WILLIAMS, Abraham
| Service Number: | 2471 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 21st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brunswick, Victoria, 22 May 1896 |
| Home Town: | Brunswick East, Moreland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Driver |
| Died: | 1968, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 29 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 2471, 21st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 2471, 21st Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Melbourne | |
| 28 Jan 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2471, 21st Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Modbury High School
Abraham Williams was born on the 22nd of May 1894-96 in Brunswick Victoria. He was married to Ethel Williams and had one son, Sydney Raymond Williams.
He enlisted in the war on the 13th of July 1915 at 21 years and two months old. He was a natural born British subject and a Baptist. He worked as a driver in Victoria. He was convicted once in Victoria. He lived at 106 Arden street, North Melbourne as an adult. He was 5ft 6 ¾ ins, he weighed 12 stone (76.2 kg), he had a dark complexion, brown eyes, and black hair. He was in the 21st battalion, 5th reinforcement, his registration number was 2471 and he was a Private.
He embarked at Melbourne on the HMAT Osterley on the 7th October 1915.
Williams was sent to sail home from Suez on the 15th of November the same year because he was deemed medically unfit from a fractured kneecap. He returned to Australia on the 13th December 1915 and on the 28th of January 1916 and was discharged from the AIF, medically unfit.