MENDHAM, William Hilton
| Service Number: | 7068 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Rockley, New South Wales, Australia, 22 December 1890 |
| Home Town: | Warren, Warren Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway fettler (track worker). |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 November 1917, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Warren War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 7068, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 7068, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney | |
| 3 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 7068, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to scalp. Went to hospital in Rouen and then to convalescent homes in Rouen and Buchy. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
William Hilton MENDHAM (Service Number 7068) was born on 22nd December 1890 at Rockley near Bathurst. He joined the NSW Government Railways as a fettler (track worker) on the Dubbo-Nyngan line in March 1912. A year later he moved to the Nevertire-Warren line. In April 1916 he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF at Dubbo.
He was alotted to the 23rd Reinforcements of the 2nd Battalion. He spent some weeks in hospital at Milson Island being treated for venereal disease before he was embarked from Sydney in November 1916. He landed in England in January 1917. He was sent to France in April and ‘taken on strength’ by his Battalion in May. On 3rd October he was wounded in action (gunshot wound to scalp) and sent to hospital in Rouen, where he spent three days before moving to a convalescent depot there, and later to another in Buchy. He returned to base duties on 24th October and re-joined his Battalion on 4th November.
He was killed in action in Belgium on 8th November 1917. He has no known grave but is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sycney Central Station Honour Board.