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Personal data

• Name RICKARD
• Initials WH
• First name WILLIAM HENRY
• Place of birth Footscray
• Country Victoria, Australia
• Last residence Fremantle, Western Australia
• Family Son of William Henry and Emma Rickard, of Glen Forrest, Western Australia

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted in Blackboy Hill, Western Australia on 27 April 1916
• Service number 5787
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 28th Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 2nd Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked at Fremantle on 13 October 1916; to France on 22 December 1916

Death

• Wounded 4 October 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds on head at n°10 CCS
• Date of death 4 October 1917
• Died at the age of 25
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XX - H - 1

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