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  • SNEATH
  • W
  • WILLIAM
  • Alstonville
  • New South Wales, Australia
  • Brisbane, Queensland
  • Son of James and Henrietta Matilda Sneath, of "Drayton," Fullers Rd., Chatswood, New South Wales
  • Farmer
  • Military Medal recommendation (4 October 1917): "These men worked their machine guns under very heavy enemy artillery fire and displayed the utmost coolness and disregard to personal danger."

Military service

  • Enlisted 14 September 1915, Brisbane, Queensland
  • 4581
  • Private
  • M M, 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 13th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
  • 13th Brigade
  • 4th Australian Division
  • A.I.F.
  • Embarked 31 January 1916

Death

  • 10 October
  • Died of shrapnel wounds buttocks and abdomen in n°10 CCS
  • 17 October 1917
  • 27
  • XXII - B - 4

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