BRINKLEY, William George
| Service Number: | 813 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 25th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 1879 |
| Home Town: | Woombye, Sunshine Coast, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 29 August 1918 |
| Cemetery: |
Assevillers New British Cemetery Headstone in cemetery with 813 Serjeant (sic) WG Brinkley, 25 Bn Australian Inf, 29th August 1918, Aged 39 "In Honour he lived, in honour he died, fighting for his country". Location V.A.1, Assevillers New British Cemetery, Assevillers, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 813, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Aeneas embarkation_ship_number: A60 public_note: '' | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 813, 25th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Aeneas, Brisbane | |
| 29 Aug 1918: | Involvement Sergeant, 813, 25th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 813 awm_unit: 25 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-08-29 |
Great Great Nephew School report
Here is a school report that William's Great Great Nephew Shamus Brodie did about William when he was about 8 years old for a school project (with help from mum Sharon Brodie and grandma Jennifer Gillan);
My great-great Uncle, my Grandma’s Uncle’s name is William George Brinkley. He was born in 1879, and joined the Army on 3 Feb 1915 and left for war on board HMAT Aeneas on 29 June 1915. So he was only in the Army for 4 months before he was sent to War. He was 35 years old, so was a bit older than a lot of the other men that went to war.
He was in the 25 Battalion AIF and was a Sergeant.
He died in Peronne France on 29 August 1918 and was 39 years old.
I went and saw where he was buried at Assevillers Cemetry in northern France, in early 2009 when I was 7 years old. We think it would have been the first time any of his family would have visited his grave.
Submitted 15 July 2019 by Sharon Brodie
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