COMPSTON, William
| Service Number: | 263 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 March 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | Goroke, Victoria, Australia, 1889 |
| Home Town: | Geraldton, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Fremantle, Western Australia, 6 May 1922, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia Due to redevelopment this grave no longer exists. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 263, 9th Depot Battalion | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 263, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 263, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle | |
| 23 Oct 1915: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Gallipoli | |
| 29 Jan 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 10th Field Artillery Brigade , France | |
| 28 Feb 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Driver, 263, 10th Field Ambulance, Embarked England for Albany WA per Anchises | |
| 10 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 263, 10th Field Ambulance |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private William Compston (Service No:263) enlisted in the AIF on 4 March 1915 with 9 Depot Coy, and embarked with 28th Infantry Battalion on 9 June 1915 from Fremantle for Alexandria on board HMAT A11 Ascanius. Private Compston served in Egypt and Gallipoli with 10th Light Horse Regiment and 4th Division Artillery, embarking for France in 1916. Private Compston served as Driver attached to 10th Field Artillery and embarked from England for Albany WA on 28 February 1919 on board the Anchises. Driver Compston was attached to 10th Field Ambulance at Discharge on 10 June 1919.
Born in 1899 in Garoke Victoria, William (Bill) Anthony Sutton Compston was the third of seven children of William Compston (b1861 in Coleraine, Victoria) and Ellen Susan Sutton (b1865 in Portland, Victoria). William (a Butcher) and Ellen married in 1884 in Garoke, Victoria and had settled in the Eastern Goldfields of WA by 1896. William worked as Butcher, and he and Ellen lived in Kalgoorlie and Niagara before moving to Fremantle in 1912.
Bill worked as a Butcher in Fremantle where, in 1913 he married Elsie Alma Smetherham (b1890 in Bendigo, Victoria) - Elsie worked in Coolgardie, WA as a Shop Assistant. Bill and Elsie settled in Geraldton, where Bill was a Butcher when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, he and Elsie lived in Fremantle where Bill worked as a Butcher until his death in 1922. Elsie remarried in 1928.
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