WILLIAMS, Edmund Tennyson
| Service Numbers: | 2574, 198 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 3 September 1914, Discharged medically unfit-17.10.1914. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Sandgate, New South Wales, Australia, 7 January 1949 |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NE. 36. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2574, Divisional Ammunition Column, Discharged medically unfit-17.10.1914. | |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 198, 12th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 198, 12th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 198, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney | |
| 8 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 198, 3rd Infantry Battalion |
Help us honour Edmund Tennyson Williams's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
76 years ago today, on the Sunday afternoon of the 9th January 1949, Private Edmund Tennyson Williams Miller Williams, referred to as Ted, 3rd Battalion (Reg Nos- 2574 & 198), labourer from "Dapto", 92 Teralba Road, Adamstown, New South Wales and Maitland Road, Sandgate, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 58. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NE. 36.
Born at Merewether? or Newcastle?, New South Wales about 1891 to Edmund Tennyson Snr, died 17.12.1920, "Dapto", 92 Teralba Road, Adamstown, N.S.W., age 64, buried at METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NE. 30, and Jane Williams nee Turnbull, died 16.6.1942, Mayfield (Mater Hospital), N.S.W., age 89, sleeping at METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NE. 30, from "Dapto", 92 Teralba Road, Adamstown, N.S.W.; husband of Matilda Florence Williams nee Creasy, married 3.5.1916 at St. Bartholomew's Church, Grays Inn Road, London, England, died?, Ted enlisted on the 3rd September 1914 (an Original Anzac) with the Australian Divisional Ammunition Column at Sydney, N.S.W.
Discharged medically unfit-17.10.1914.
Re-enlisted 17.2.1915, (12th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Reg No-198) Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A29 Suevic on the 13th June 1915.
Admitted to hospital 13.10.1915 (dysentery), 6.3.1919 (influenza).
Commenced return to Australia 10.7.1919.
Ted arrived home with wife & child on the 8th September 1919, being discharged on the 7th November 1919.
Mr. Williams’s name has been inscribed on the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial, Adamstown Municipal District Roll of Honor, Adamstown Methodist Church Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Ted’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died after Discharge, 7/1/1949.
Officially commemorated 19.7.1949 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Issued all 3 War Medals.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
Click images to start slideshow.