William Charles SHILCOCK

William Charles SHILCOCK Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

SHILCOCK, William Charles

Service Numbers:	769, 6094
Enlisted:	27 November 1914
Last Rank:	Second Class Air Mechanic
Last Unit:	No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
Born:	Southampton, England, 7 June 1889
Home Town:	Torrensville, South Australia
Schooling:	St Mary's Extra, Southampton, England
Occupation:	Carpenter
Died:	Influenza, Germany, 18 January 1919, aged 29 years
Cemetery:	Cologne Southern Cemetery Plot 1, Row B, Grave 21, Cologne Southern Cemetery, Cologne, Germany
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Kapunda District WW1 Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

27 Nov 1914:	Enlisted Second Class Air Mechanic, 769, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps
26 Aug 1915:	Involvement Private, 6094, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: ''
26 Aug 1915:	Embarked Private, 6094, 2nd Australian General Hospital: AIF, HMAT Anchises, Melbourne
25 Oct 1916:	Embarked 769, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement 769, No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
18 Jan 1919:	Involvement Second Class Air Mechanic, 769, No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 769 awm_unit: No. 4 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps awm_rank: Air Mechanic Class II awm_died_date: 1919-01-18

Help us honour William Charles Shilcock's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

William Charles SHILCOCK was born in Southampton, England in 1889

His parents were William SHILCOCK & Lavinia Eliza TUCK who married in England in 1885

He had previously served in the Territorials in Southampton before he enlisted in Australia to serve in WW1 - four of his brothers also served in WW1

He married Annie Louise DANIELS in South Australia in 1914 - one known child Leslie Stanley SHILCOCK born 1914

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia