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Personal data

• Name GREAR
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Manchester
• Country England
• Family Husband of Alice Grear

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Sydney, New South Wales on 23 February 1916
• Service number 2181
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 45th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 12th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation in Sydney on 22 August 1916; to France on 8 January 1917

Death

• Wounded Gunshot wounds on side and scalp, to hospital on 16 March 1917; back to unit on 11 April 1917; gunshot wounds on right buttock, to hospital on 9 June 1917, transferred to England; back to unit on 14 September 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on right thigh, left leg and arm at n°3 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 14 October 1917
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - C - 21

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