GUEST, William
| Service Number: | 3063 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 33rd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 12 October 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial Grave XXXVI. F. 16 INSCRIPTION I ONCE WAS LOST BUT NOW AM FOUND , Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 24 Jan 1917: | Involvement Private, 3063, 33rd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 24 Jan 1917: | Embarked Private, 3063, 33rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Pte Guest died on 12 October 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. Witness accounts from his comrades state Pte Guest was asleep in his dugout when a shell landed near him, ‘the concussion of which killed him instantly’.
His body was believed missing and he was therefore commemorated on the CWGC on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. However research has shown he is in fact buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery.
He was 33 and the son of Henry Thomas Guest and Mary H. Guest, of 1064 Argyle St., Glasgow, Scotland.
INSCRIPTION
I ONCE WAS LOST BUT NOW AM FOUND
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