WILLIAMS, Phillip
| Service Number: | 3508 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Monmouthshire, Wales , 9 September 1888 |
| Home Town: | Collie, Collie, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Coal Miner |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, 16 September 1948, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3508, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3508, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle | |
| 5 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, 3508, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), embarked Alexandria for Marseilles | |
| 8 Jun 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), France: Shell Gassed | |
| 3 Mar 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), embarked England for Fremantle on board HT Euripides | |
| 5 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3508, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
One of three brothers who served in WWI, Private Phillip Williams (Service No:3508) enlisted in the AIF with his older brother William (Private; Service No:3498) at Blackboy Hill on 29 July 1915 in No 18 Depot Coy. Both brothers were attached to 11th Infantry Battalion when they enlisted with their Unit on 2 November 1915 from Fremantle for Gallipoli on board HMAT A38 Ulysses, and were together with 51st Battalion on 5 June 1916 when they embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles. William was KiA at Pozieres on 5 July 1916, and Phillip was Recommended for the Military Medal on 20 August 1916 ' for continuous bravery between 13th and 16th August 1916 near Pozieres .... ' where he was one of four men posted at a relay running station carrying messages 'incessantly under heavy shell fire and through enemy barrages, delivering them with astonishing rapidity over exposed and obliterated tracks ....' (AWM). Private Williams was WiA in France on 8 June 1917 (Shell Gas), embarking from England for Fremantle on 3 March 1919 on board HT Euripides. Private Williams was attached to 51st Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 5 September 1919.
Born in Monmouthshire, Wales in 1888, Phillip was fifth of seven children of William Williams and Margaret Francis, both born in 1856 in Monmouthshire, Wales. William and Margaret married in 1875 in Monmouthshire, where they settled and raised their family - William and their sons worked as Coal Miners/Hewers. In 1909, William and three sons (Ivor remained in Wales) immigrated, arriving in Fremantle on board the Orsova, and Margaret followed with their daughters in 1910 on board the Ormuz. William and Margaret settled in Collie, where they raised their family and William worked as a Coal Miner.
Phillip worked as a Coal Miner in Collie prior to enlisting in the AIF and, following his Discharge, returned to Collie where in 1919 he married Grace Eliza Ellen Stuchbury (b1889 in Birkenhead, South Australia). Phillip and Grace settled in Collie, where they raised their family and Phillip worked as a Miner and Labourer. Grace died in 1931 and Phillip in 1948.