TEARE, William Douglas
| Service Number: | SX8598 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | HQ Guard Battalion |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 31 July 1902 |
| Home Town: | Kensington, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Died: | Amyloidosis, Adelaide, South Australia, 25 March 1951, aged 48 years |
| Cemetery: |
Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia Charles Newman Garden Rose 159 Position 1 |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 12 Jul 1940: | Involvement Private, SX8598 | |
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| 12 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 12 Jul 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX8598 | |
| 7 Nov 1940: | Embarked Private, SX8598, Embarked HMT Stratheden for the Middle East, arriving at El Kantora, Egypt. | |
| 19 Jun 1941: | Transferred HQ Guard Battalion, Transferred to 2nd Australian Dental Unit | |
| 10 Mar 1942: | Embarked Egypt Disembarked Ceylon | |
| 9 Jul 1942: | Embarked Ceylon disembarked Melbourne | |
| 29 Mar 1944: | Discharged |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by David Sinclair
Bill Teare was a bricklayer. Married to Doris and with two children, Pam and Doug. If his photographs are anything to go by he seemed to enjoy his time served in the army. This is despite several hospitalisations,10 in all, for 185 days due to ill health.
He was an avid photographer, and you would not pick that he had a problem by looking through the photos of him and his mates. In fact when he visited Jacobs Well he wrote his wife that it was from this well that the Samaratian woman drew water for our saviour. I had a drink of water from the well. It was not as good as West End.
Bill worked as a cook. He began his duty with the AIF Base Area Units Kilo 89 (Palestine) in Febuary 1941. We dont know where he went or what he saw over the next four months, but in July he was transferred to the 2nd Australian Dental Unit. He was hospitalised 3 times yet continued his work until being evacuated to Ceylon in March 1942 and being diagnosed with anxiety neurosis later that year before returning to Australia.
Despite this he did some further training and between his own hospitalisations he worked in hospitals in both Adelaide (59c Largs Bay) and Western Australia. (125 Guilford , 110 Perth)
Bill was discharged after 1330 days in March 1944. According to his wife Doris (Doll) he was never the same man after the war.
Bill died on the 25/3/1951 from the rare condition amyloidosis. He is buried in the Centennial Park Cemetery with his wife Doris.
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