WILLIAM+SUMMERS

Summers, William Wigan, Lance Corporal, 81, 1st Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps Born Measham, Leicestershire Enlisted Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Died of wounds on board H.S. Sicilia 28th June 1915 aged 28 Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey

1911 Census A coal miner filler Son of George, a pipe works clay miner, and Mary Jane Summers, of 34, Windmill Street, Church Gresley, Derbyshire

Service record information from the National Archives of Australia William Summers enlisted on the 25th August 1914 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was employed as a labourer, and he stated his next of kin as Mrs. M. J. Summers, of 26, Talbot Road, Church Gresley, Derbyshire. Five feet eight inches tall, he weighed twelve stone six pounds, had a medium complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and was a Baptist. He had a scar between his eyes.


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