BUNDY, William John
Service Numbers: | 3261, 3261A |
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Enlisted: | 6 September 1915 |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 53rd Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
Home Town: | Alexandria, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
Schooling: | Alexandria Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
Occupation: | Wicker Worker |
Died: | Killed in Action, France, 19 July 1916 |
Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial |
World War 1 Service
6 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3261, Depot Battalion | |
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13 Oct 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3261, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: '' | |
13 Oct 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3261, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Sydney | |
19 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3261A, 53rd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3261A awm_unit: 53rd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-07-19 |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
William John BUNDY, (Service Number 3261A), born in Sydney on New Year’s Eve, 1895, had been employed as a shop boy in the NSWGR workshops at Eveleigh for less than a month when he was granted leave to enlist in the AIF, which he did on 6 September 1915 at Warwick Farm. He gave his ‘trade or calling’ on enlistment as wickerworker and stated that he had served as apprentice to a firm of wickerworkers in Redfern.
Embarked from Sydney in October 1915, he was sent to Egypt and then on to France, where he landed in June 1916. He was reported wounded and missing in action in July, later amended to ‘killed in action’ on the basis of evidence given by a comrade who saw his body in ‘no man’s land’. He has no known grave but is commemorated at the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles.
On enlistment he had nominated his mother as next of kin but it was subsequently discovered that he had left behind him an ex-nuptial daughter, born in June 1916. His mother and daughter were each granted a war pension by the authorities, and his mother and the mother of his child agreed to divide his war medals between them, in the latter case to be held in trust for his child.
(NAA B2455-3166489)
Submitted 12 May 2023 by John Oakes