WILLIAM+BANCROFT

Bancroft, William, Private, 775, 12th Battalion, Australian Infantry Killed in action 25th April 1915 aged 22 Son of Thomas and Clara Bancroft, of Barrow-on-Trent, Derby, England. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey

William Bancroft was born in Alvaston, Derby, and he enlisted at Blackboy Hill Camp, Western Australia, on the 14th September 1914, stating his occupation as farmer and his next of kin as Mrs. C. Bancroft, of Barrow on Trent. He was 5 feet 6 inches in height, weighed 153 pounds, had a fair complexion, blue eyes and fair hair. He belonged to the Church of England, and had 4 vaccination marks on his left arm and a scar in the centre of his back. He embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on the HMAT A7 'Medic', 2nd November 1914. He was posted as missing between the 25th and 28th April 1915 at Gallipoli, and it was not until the 3rd June 1916 that a board of enquiry officially reported him as being killed in action on the 25th April.