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Personal data

• Name SNEATH
• Initials W
• First name WILLIAM
• Place of birth Alstonville
• Country New South Wales, Australia
• Last residence Brisbane, Queensland
• Family Son of James and Henrietta Matilda Sneath, of "Drayton," Fullers Rd., Chatswood, New South Wales
• Profession Farmer
• Extra info 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

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 14 September 1915, Brisbane, Queensland
• Service number 4581
• Rank Private
• Medals M M, 1914-15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 13th Coy. Australian Machine Gun Corps
• Division - Brigade 13th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked 31 January 1916

Death

• Wounded 10 October
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds buttocks and abdomen in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 17 October 1917
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - B - 4

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