William Henry Charles Griffin
Birth Name | Griffin, William Henry Charles 1a 2 3 4a 5a 6 7a |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | 20 years, 9 days |
Events
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https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4711809 |
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1470044 |
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Birth | 1898-09-26 | South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 1b 4b 5b | |
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Occupation | 1917-08-00 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Ironworker | |
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Military Service | 1917-08-25 | Victoria, Australia | ||
Event Note
Fills out AIF enlistment. Needs parental consent but mother refuses so has sister, Evelina, forge consent of his mother. |
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Residence | 1917-08-25 | Chelsea, Victoria, Australia | ||
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Ella Grove, residence on AIF enlistment form |
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Military Service | 1917-09-10 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 8a | |
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Joined AIF. Enlistment form signed 25 Aug 1917. 23rd Infantry Battalion, 20th Reinforcement, Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 21 November 1917. Eric William Phillips, future husband of Evelina, also on Nestor. |
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Military Service | 1917-12-15 | Port Said, Ash Sharqiyah, Egypt | ||
Event Note
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Military Service | 1918-01-05 | Alexandria, Al Iskandariyah, Egypt | ||
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AIF training in Egypt at Gabbari Camp near Alexandria prior to transport to Europe. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Military Service | 1918-01-13 | Taranto, Puglia, Italy | ||
Event Note
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Military Service | 1918-01-23 | Southampton, Hampshire, England | ||
Event Note
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Military Service | 1918-04-17 | Etaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France | ||
Event Note
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Military Service | 1918-04-27 | Morlancourt, Somme, Picardie, France | ||
Event Note
https://vwma.org.au/explore/units/315 |
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Military Service | 1918-10-04 | Beaurevoir, Aisne, Picardie, France | ||
Event Note
Wounded, likely near the villages of Montbrehain or Beaurevoir. https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=4711809 |
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Death | 1918-10-05 | Aisne, Picardie, France | 8b 8c 2 3 6 | |
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Army field hospital, presumably near Templeux-le-Guérard. |
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Burial | 1918-10-08 | Templeux-le-Guerard, Somme, Picardie, France | 2 3 6 | |
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Templeux-le-Guerard Communal Cemetery Extension. About 15 km from the collapsing Hindenburg Line where he was fatally wounded. |
Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | William Griffin | 1850-03-22 | 1932-02-01 | |
Mother | Rachel Louisa Cooper | 1873-09-22 | 1951-05-24 | |
Sister | Lillian May Griffin | 1892 | 1933-11-28 | |
Sister | Daisy Violet Victoria Griffin | 1894-09-05 | 1965-07-00 | |
Sister | Florence Ada Griffin | 1896 | 1983-10-02 | |
William Henry Charles Griffin | 1898-09-26 | 1918-10-05 | ||
Sister | Evelina Griffin | 1901-03-02 | 1982-10-20 | |
Brother | James Morris Griffin | 1903 | 1969-10-28 | |
Sister | Valerie Amelia Griffin | 1908 | 1969-01-28 | |
Stepfather | George William Stap | 1890-02-00 | 1953-02-19 | |
Mother | Rachel Louisa Cooper | 1873-09-22 | 1951-05-24 | |
Half-sister | Ivy May Griffin | 1912-06-12 | 1999-06-12 |
Pedigree
Ancestors
Source References
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Ancestry.com: Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922
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Source text:
Birth date: 1898
Birth place: Melbourne, Victoria
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Source text:
Birth date: 1898
Birth place: Melbourne, Victoria
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- Ancestry.com: Web: International, Find A Grave Index
- Ancestry.com: International, Find A Grave Index for Select Locations, 1300s-Current
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Ancestry.com: Victoria, Australia, Birth Index, 1837-1917
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- Page: The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia, Birth Records
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- Page: The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Victoria, Australia, Birth Records
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Ancestry.com: Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
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- Page: National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920
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- Page: National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920
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- Ancestry.com: Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
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Ancestry.com: Australia, Applications to Enlist in the AIF, 1915-1918
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- Page: National Archives of Australia; Applications to enlist in the AIF 1915-1918; Series: MT1486/1
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The Melbourne Argus
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- Date: 1918-11-30
- Page: 1918 'THE 445th and 446th CASUALTY LISTS.', The Mildura Cultivator (Vic. : 1888 - 1920), 30 November, p. 14
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Source text:
DIED OF WOUNDS
Private W. H. Griffin, Clifton Hill
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- Date: 1918-11-26
- Page: 1918 'THE PRICE OF PEACE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 26 November, p. 7
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Source text:
THE PRICE OF PEACE.
VICTORIAN CASUALTIES.
Lists Nos 445 and 446.
Released yesterday by the Defence depart- ment "Casualty Lists Nos. 445 and 446 con- tain the following; names of Victorian mem- bers of the A.I.F., all of whom, unless other wise specified, are privates:-
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LIST No. 446.
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Died of Wounds
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GRIFFIN, W. H. C. Clifton Hill, 5/10/18.
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- Date: 1918-11-30
- Page: 1918 'THE 445th and 446th CASUALTY LISTS.', The Mildura Cultivator (Vic. : 1888 - 1920), 30 November, p. 14
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Source text:
DIED OF WOUNDS
Private W. H. Griffin, Clifton Hill
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