EUSTACE, William Williamson
| Service Number: | 1804 |
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| Enlisted: | 27 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England., 29 October 1890 |
| Home Town: | Nannup, Nannup, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Whitgift School, Croydon, Surrey 1902-1906 and then Bedford Modern School 1907-1910. Lincoln Agricultural College, Canterbury, New Zealand. |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds sustained at Walkers Ridge, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 7 August 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 10. Also listed on a WW1 memorial plaque at the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery in Japan along with one other British serviceman who also died at Gallipoli. His connection to Japan is not known., Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Nannup Town Hall, Nannup War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 27 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 19 Apr 1915: | Involvement Private, 1804, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Apr 1915: | Embarked Private, 1804, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Argyllshire, Fremantle | |
| 7 Aug 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 1804, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1804 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-07 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Dec 1890 Eustace William Williamson Berkhampstead 3a 563
Birth registered in Hertfordshire. There is some doubt about exactly where he was born-at attestation, he stated Aylesbury which is in Buckinghamshire-some sources say Marsworth or Long Marston.
Baptised 28 November 1890 in Wingrave, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire.
Religion - Church of England.
In the 1901 census he was aged 10, born Long Marston (sic), Hertfordshire, resident with his parents at 55, Gery Street, Bedford.
Enlisted 27 January 1915.
He was 24 and the son of Fred Owen Eustace and Harriet Rebecca Eustace, of 19, Woodstock Rd., Croydon, England.
Previously served in the Whitgift Cadets-South Croydon, Surrey, England. and Ashburton Mounted Rifles. N.Z.
He is one of two Australian casualties of the Great War who are honoured at their old school, the Bedford Modern School. He was a pupil between 1899-1909They are commemorated on the School’s War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 in the Memorial Hall of the School’s Harpur Street building, and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. A second memorial plaque was added at a later date to include additional names missing from the original memorial. When the School moved to new premises in Manton Lane in 1974 the memorial tablets were removed and now hang on the wall in Memorial Court under covered area between Kaye and Liddle Quads. Stone tablets containing names incised.
In memory of ‘the Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause’
He had an elder brother Major Fred Arthur Eustace [born 1879 Berkshire?] of New Zealand, who served at Gallipoli as a Corporal with New Zealand forces. Other brothers were Commander Owen Henry Eustace [Born Buckinghamshire 1895]who also served at Gallipoli with New Zealand forces and also in WWII in the Navy –captured by Japanese at Singapore-and Lieutenant H.C. Eustace [Royal Garrison Artillery] who was severely wounded at Ypres in WWI, but survived, dying in 1956.
The parents rest in New Zealand.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F.O. Eustace; he was also a pupil at Whitgift Grammar School at North End in Croydon, Surrey-he was in Tate’s House between 1902 and 1906.
He became a Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps and Captain of F. and C. at Lincoln College, New Zealand.
He visited England with the New Zealand Mounted Rifles for the King’s Coronation, and received the Coronation Medal.
He joined the 10th Light Horse Regiment as a Trooper in Dec. 1914; went to Egypt March 1915, promoted to Quarter Master Sergeant;reverted to the rank of Trooper to go to Gallipoli, where he was wounded at Walker’s Ridge on August 6th and died the next day.
He is remembered in the Whitgift Grammar School Book of Remembrance, 1914-19 and on the war memorial panels in the South Entrance at the school now at its present site at Haling Park, South Croydon.
[additional information kindly provided by William Wood-Archivist,Whitgift School and Foundation]
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