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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia > Records

World War 1 , Europe, France, WILSON, 16 Battalion, 1918

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Grave marker of Sergeant Horace Patrick Wilson Military Medal 16 Battalion, Killed in Action / Died of Wounds 26 June 1918

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157 Horace Patrick Wilson of Victoria Park enlisted on 8 September 1914 and embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 22 December 1914. Promoted Sergeant in mid-1917, he was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry at Zonnebeke, Flanders (Third Ypres) on 26 September 1917. He died on 26 July 1918 as a result of his third wound in action and is buried in St Pierre Cemetery, Amiens.

https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=327963
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=2011376

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cwa-org-32-P1900.1169

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War and Conflict

Year

1918

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49.911133862588, 2.3282639530074

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