SAYER, William Thomas
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | Royal Engineers |
| Born: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 1888 |
| Home Town: | Newtown, Greater Geelong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Geelong College, Geelong School of Mine, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Metalurgist |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 5 June 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Arras Flying Services Memorial, Newtown All Saints Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Lieutenant, Officer, Royal Engineers |
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2nd Lieutenant (2 Lt) William Thomas Sayer, 180th Field Company Royal Engineers, British Army. 2 Lt Sayer was born and raised in Geelong, Victoria, and was a mine manager in Queensland before travelling to the United States of America in 1912 to further his mining experience. Sayer enllisted with a British Army cavalry unit in 1914, and was posted to the 180th Field Company, 4 Corps, Royal Engineers. 2 Lt Sayer was killed in action on 5 June 1916, while preparing to set mines close to German workings at Vermilles. He was 27 years old.
Lieutenant William Thomas Sayer, who was killed in action on June 6, was the second son of the late Mr. J. W. Sayer and Mrs. Sayer, of Newtown, Geelong. Lieutenant Sayer was 27 years of age, was educated at the Geelong Grammar School, and took up mining engineering and metallurgy at the Ballarat School of Mines, and practised his profession in Queensland and New South Wales and the United States.
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