George Nixon WILLIAMSON

WILLIAMSON, George Nixon

Service Number: 19153
Enlisted: 12 November 1915
Last Rank: Driver
Last Unit: 110th Australian (Howitzer) Battery
Born: Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, England, April 1882
Home Town: Manly, Manly Vale, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Farmer
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 14 June 1917
Cemetery: Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Manly War Memorial NSW
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World War 1 Service

12 Nov 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 19153, 7th Field Artillery Brigade
11 May 1916: Involvement Gunner, 19153, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: ''
11 May 1916: Embarked Gunner, 19153, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney
14 Jun 1917: Involvement Driver, 19153, 110th Australian (Howitzer) Battery, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 19153 awm_unit: 110th Australian (Howitzer) Battery awm_rank: Driver awm_died_date: 1917-06-14

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Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

On June 14, 1917, sixteen members of the 110th Howitzer Battery were blown up and killed when an enemy shell hit the ammunition dump they were working on at Messines, and the survivors of the battery erected a memorial nearby.

Driver George Nixon Williamson and his brother Driver Harold Williamson were both killed in the explosion and are buried side by side in the Kandahar Farm Cemetery, Belgium.