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DUNSTAN, William Arthur
| Service Number: | 3800 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Clare, South Australia, Australia, 8 March 1895 |
| Home Town: | Clare, Clare and Gilbert Valleys, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Shoving Smith |
| Died: | Natural Causes, 1969, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
AIF Cemetery, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Feb 1916: | Involvement Driver, 3800, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Miltiades embarkation_ship_number: A28 public_note: '' | |
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| 7 Feb 1916: | Embarked Driver, 3800, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Miltiades, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Private, 3800 | |
| Date unknown: | Wounded 3800, 27th Infantry Battalion |
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William Arthur Dunstan was born on the 8th of March 1895 in the town of Clare in South Australia. He was the son of a man named Bennet Dunstan and a mother named Margaret Dunstan. He had religious beliefs in Methodist. He married to Margaret Dunstan at the age of 27 and he had 2 children before he went to war. William worked as a Shoving Smith and had been working as one since he was a teenager. William had three siblings and was the youngest. He had two older brothers and one older sister. His father was a Bootmaker. William was a good pupil at school, and he left at the age of fifteen, after he left school he joined the clerical staff of Snows, he worked hard and soon became the cadet rank of captain.
On the 9 of February 1915 William Arthur Dunstan joined the army. He was put in 27th Battalion. He was the Acting Sergeant of the 6th Reinforcements and the 7th Battalion.
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