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Leongatha & District
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HISTORY OF THE FORMER WOORAYL SHIRE
Dumbalk • Inverloch • Koonwarra • Leongatha • Meeniyan • Ruby
Tarwin Lower • Venus Bay • Walkerville
KNEALE, William
Number:
Corporal 3318
5th Battalion
Allambee via Leongatha
Mr. W Kneale 2 Cambridge St Armidale, Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria 8/7/1915
Age 22 years 5 months, 5'8" 173 pounds, light blue eyes, fair hair.
Catholic
Window dresser
He was wounded in action on 10/2/1917 and died on 13/2/1917.
He was buried at Dernancourt Cemetery
He was born in Allambie and lived there. The family moved to Leongatha and he attended Leongatha State School.
◈ 8/7/15 He enlisted in Melbourne
◈ 11/10/15 He embarked Melbourne on the HMAT Nestor
◈ 26/2/16 He became a Lance Corporal
◈ 26/3/16 He embarked Alexandria
◈ 30/3/16 He disembarked Marseilles
◈ 7/7/16 He became a corporal
◈ 18/8/16 He became a Lance Sergeant
◈ 17/11/16 He became a temporary Sergeant
◈ 12/1/17 He became a Sergeant
◈ 10/2/17 He was wounded in action suffering a bomb wound to the left thigh
◈ 13/2/17 Died of wounds
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