Participant Info

Given Name

William Henry

Family Name

Purcell

Service Number

12383

Place of Birth

Neerim South VIC

Occupation

Bridge Carpenter

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne Vic

Next of Kin

Address on Enlistment

Neerim East, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

Field Ambulance 10

Age at Embarkation

26

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A54 Runic, Melbourne VIC on 20 June 1916

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Sapper

Date of Return

4/06/1919

Place of death or wounding

Date of Death

Fate

RTA

Place of burial/memorial

Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France

EDITING: ITEMS CHANGED/NOTES

at Wiseleigh 1914, 1915 electoral rolls

Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=8022657