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• Name PEART
• Initials WAR
• First name WILLIAM ANDREW REGINALD
• Place of birth Elsternwick
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Family Son of Andrew and Janet Peart, of "Vaughan," 20, Byron St., Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
• Education Royal Military College (1913 - 1915), graduated in June 1915

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted on 1 July 1915
• Rank Major
• Regiment and unit 2nd Brigade Australian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career To Suez November 1915; to France on 19 March 1916; promoted captain in July, England; from August to November Divisional Trench Mortar Officer; command of the 36th Battery, 23rd Howitzer Brigade in November 1916, return to France; transfer to 27th Battery, 7th Field Artillery Brigade in January 1917; staff training for the position of Brigade major from May to September 1917; return to active duty with the 1st Divisional Artillery, September 1917, in Belgium; promotion to major and commander of the 4th Battery, 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade;

Death

• Wounded 2 November, gas shell bombardment
• Type of wounds Died of wounds, gas (shell) at n°2 Canadian CCS
• Date of death 3 November 1917
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - EE - 4

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