William Henry (Billie) BARNARD

BARNARD, William Henry

Service Numbers: 190, 3626
Enlisted: 31 August 1914, Brighton, Tasmania
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 15th Infantry Battalion
Born: Oatlands, Tasmania, 28 April 1890
Home Town: Sorell, Sorell, Tasmania
Schooling: Sorell State School
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 21 January 1918, aged 27 years
Cemetery: Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery
Plot: Fusilier Wood Memorial, Duhallow Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sorell War Memorial
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World War 1 Service

31 Aug 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 190, Brighton, Tasmania
20 Oct 1914: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 190, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Hobart embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1914: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 190, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Hobart
6 May 1915: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 190, Returned to Australia on 15 April 1915 and discharged at Hobart, Tasmania as medically unfit
16 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3626, Claremont, Tasmania
27 Oct 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3626, 15th Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
27 Oct 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3626, 15th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
11 Apr 1917: Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3626, 15th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), GSW (right buttock)
21 Jan 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3626, 15th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

The three enlisted children of Arthur George Barnard and Alice Phoebe (née Bailey) Barnard of Sorell, Tasmania:-

6467 Pte. Eric Gordon Barnard (/explore/people/112487) - killed in action;

23 WO1 Arthur Victor Barnard (/explore/people/183869) - died of wounds;

190, 3626 Pte. William Henry Barnard - killed in action.

'PUBLIC NOTICES.

It having been falsely reported in Sorell that my son, Private William Barnard, has returned from Egypt as "an undesirable." I wish, in justice to him, to deny this cowardly slander. My son has now returned to the Front as a Lance-Corporal, which speaks for itself. Should these reports be insisted upon, proceedings will be taken against the slanderers. A. G. BARNARD, Sorell, Oct. 19, 1915.' from The Mercury 21 Oct 1915 (nla.gov.au)

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