JAMIESON, William Guthrie
| Service Number: | 2686 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 18th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ayrshire, Scotland, 10 May 1886 |
| Home Town: | Petersham, Marrickville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Stonemason, Railway Porter |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 15 April 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Petersham Railways Staff Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 2686, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 2686, 18th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 15 Apr 1917: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2686, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2686 awm_unit: 18 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-04-15 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
William Guthrie JAMIESON (Service Number 2686) was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on 10th May 1886. He served an apprenticeship of five years as a stonemason in Ayr before coming to Australia.
He joined the NSW Government Railways as a gatekeeper in the Sydney District in May 1913. He was promoted to porter in August that year. In August 1915 he was living at ‘Bonnie Doon’, Railway Terrace, Lewisham, when he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF in Sydney.
He had had three years military experience in the Royal Scotch Fusiliers.
He embarked from Sydney with reinforcements in November 1915. He was ‘taken on strength’ by the 18th Battalion in Egypt in February 1916. He was sent with them to France in March.
He was sent to the Field Ambulance with a tooth abscess in September 1916. He returned to his unit two days later.
In October he was made Lance Corporal.
In November he was sent to hospital with a septic right hand. He was ‘discharged to duty’ on 27th December. He was employed on base details until he re-joined his Battalion on 5th April 1917.
On 15th April 1917 he was killed in action, aged 31. He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.
A war pension was granted to his father in Scotland.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.
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