CURTIS, William Scott
| Service Number: | 610 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, Gympie, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Postal Corps |
| Born: | Lanark, Scotland, 27 November 1889 |
| Home Town: | Murgon, South Burnett, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Atherton, Queensland, Australia, 23 May 1938, aged 48 years |
| Cemetery: |
Ravenshoe General Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gympie, Queensland | |
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| 24 Sep 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 610, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Omrah, Brisbane | |
| 24 Sep 1914: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Private, 610, 9th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Omrah embarkation_ship_number: A5 public_note: '' |
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| 25 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 610, 9th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 29 Apr 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, 610, Wounded at Gallipoli | |
| 6 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, 610, Wounded at Gallipoli | |
| 15 Sep 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, Dock Guard, Returned to Australia "D22" for Submarine Guard Duty | |
| 19 Jan 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1 | |
| 19 Jan 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 610, Australian Army Postal Corps |
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"OBITUARY. MR. WILLIAM S. CURTIS.
RAVENSHOE, May 23. The death of Mr. William Scott Curtis, of Vine Creek, Ravenshoe, occurred at the Atherton District Hospital, this morning. It was not unexpected as deceased has been ailing for some time and his been an inmate of the hospital for several weeks. He was born in Scotland, but at an early age went to Northamptonshire, England. Coming to Queensland when a young man, he followed various pursuits in the south, until the Great War, when he joined the famous 9th Battalion, A.I.F., and received his baptism of fire on the shores of Gallipoli. After the evacuation he went on to Flanders, and though receiving several minor wounds, did not return to Australia until after the armistice. Whilst in England he married, bringing his English bride home with him. For several years he followed farming pursuits at Gympie and Murgon, thence proceeded to Canada, where in Nanton (British Columbia) and Vancouver he performed timber work over seven years.
Returning to Australia again he did various work and about five years ago took up a virgin selection in the Vine Creek area, where he has resided with his wife and family since. By hard and constant work he has, in the past few years, built a nice dwelling, yards and other improvements, and the future prospects were apparently bright, but the call of Father Time has taken deceased in his 50th year. He was an active member of the local branch of the R.S.S.I.L.A. an also previously of the Gympie and New Farm sub-branches. For the past two years and since the erection of the Vine Creek State School he has held the position of president of the committee and has always carried out his duties with a thoroughness and quietness of mein which has earned just and favourable approval. The late gentleman leaves his wife and a grown family of four sons Elwin (19), Edward (17) , Donald (16), and Walter (14) to mourn his loss." - from the Cairns Post 25 May 1938 (nla.gov.au)
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