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William married Nellie Worrall in 1920 in Burwood, Sydney. Nellie was an Australian nurse from Sydney, NSW, born in 1877 and trained at Royal Hospital for Women. She enlisted in Australian Army Nursing Service, leaving Australia in April 1915 for Suez. She worked with the British Queen Alexandra Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve at No 17 British General Hospital, Alexandria & Military Infectious Hospital, Choubra, Cairo. After being transferred to UK, she worked at hospitals in Hampshire before returning to Australia in 1919.

Following her marriage to William, they lived on a property, Choubra, in Forbes. Records indicate she & William separated by 1930 with Nellie returning to Sydney where she lived until her death in May 1956. Records indicate that she divorced William 1952/54.

He was born in Dunkeld, in Victoria in 1880 son of Walter and Elizabeth Gow. His father managed Corea and Brie Brie Stations in that era. His mother with his 4 sisters subsequently ran a boarding house in Melbourne called Tasma,

He married Lucy Tatlock at Hamilton, Victoria in 1910. They made their home in Glenthompson. There were no children. After Lucy’s death in 1913, he moved to NSW as station overseer at Gooloogong near Forbes not far from his father.

William enlisted on 20 February 1915 in the 12th Light Horse Regiment, which was part of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Gallipoli and the Middle East in World War One at the age of 33 years as an Overseer from Goolagong, New South Wales. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to Australia, 26 July 1919. He was discharged from the army in 1919 as a corporal, but nothing is known of his later life.

He seems to have worked in New South Wales and possibly worked for his father on Namina Station and it appears from his sister’s obituary that he was living in Townsville in 1942.