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WILLIAMSON, George Nixon
Step 1: Personal Details
Service Number: | 19153 |
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Enlisted: | 12 November 1915 |
Last Rank: | Driver |
Last Unit: | 110th Australian (Howitzer) Battery |
Born: | Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, April 1882 |
Home Town: | Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 14 June 1917 |
Cemetery: |
Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW |
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
On June 14, 1917, sixteen members of the 110th Howitzer Battery were blown up and killed when an enemy shell hit the ammunition dump they were working on at Messines, and the survivors of the battery erected a memorial nearby.
Driver George Nixon Williamson and his brother Driver Harold Williamson were both killed in the explosion and are buried side by side in the Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Belgium.