William Edward BRUDERLIN

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BRUDERLIN, William Edward

Service Number:	22
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Not yet discovered
Home Town:	Singleton, Northumberland, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, age not yet discovered
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), Singleton Public School HR, Singleton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

18 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 22, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

William Edward BRUDERLIN, (Service Number 22) was born at Aberdeen, NSW, in 1895, and joined the NSWGR as a call boy at Hamilton locomotive depot in 1911. Promoted to cleaner (first step on the career path of an engineman) in 1912, he joined the AIF at Randwick in August 1914.
He served at Gallipoli and was evacuated, sick with gastro-enteritis, in June 1915 to Egypt, re-joining his battalion at Gallipoli the following month before again being evacuated sick in September. He worked in the hospital at Heliopolis for two months after treatment, before again re-joining his unit in January 1916, and proceeding with it to France in March.
In July 1916 he was wounded in action at Pozières and spent two months in hospital in England. He returned to France at the end of the year and re-joined his battalion on New Year’s Day 1917. After a fortnight’s rest in May, he was killed in action at Polygon Wood on 20 September 1917. He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
A beautiful stained-glass window in his memory at the South Singleton Mission Church was unveiled by the Bishop of Newcastle in 1919.
(NAA B2455-3132830)

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