ADAMS, William James Frederick
Service Number: | 10576 |
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Enlisted: | 26 January 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Signal Company |
Born: | Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
Home Town: | Mont Albert North, Whitehorse, Victoria |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Civil Servant |
Died: | Canterbury, Victoria, Australia, 1977, cause of death not yet discovered |
Cemetery: |
Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated on the 20 June 1977. Ashes were scattered |
Memorials: | Hawthorn Postmaster General's Department Victoria 1 |
World War 1 Service
26 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 10576, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria | |
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25 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 10576, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
25 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 10576, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne | |
4 Feb 1918: | Honoured Military Medal, For bravery in the field London Gazette on 4 February 1918, page 1617, position 2 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 June 1918, page 1392, position 18 | |
5 Mar 1918: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, In France | |
27 Jul 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 10576, 3rd Divisional Signal Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Thomas Adams and Mary Elizabeth Adams nee Kelly of Wolseley Street, Mont Albert, Victoria
During 1924 William marrried Enona Mitchell Leslie in Victoria
Commenced return to Australia on 30 April 1919 aboad HT Karagola disembarking on 12 June 1919
Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Previously served in the Cadets for twelve months and the Citizen Military Forces for four years in their 63rd Battalion