Soldier profiles
Name : WELSH, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD
Service Number : VX27288
Date of Birth : 15/03/1900
Place of Birth : BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND
Known as :
Occupation on Enlistment : PRESS HAND
Date of Enlistment : 17/06/1940
Locality on Enlistment : NORTH SHORE, VIC
Place of Enlistment : CAULFIELD, VIC
Next of Kin : WELSH, JENNIE
Rank (at time of discharge / death) : LANCE CORPORAL
Service : ARMY
Final Posting : 2/1 HEADQUARTERS GUARD BATTALION
Position / Platoon / Company (as 2/2 Pioneer) (date / details) :
Unit Transfers / Promotions (date / details) :
Theatres of War : SYRIA
Actions :
Wounded (date / details) : WOUNDED IN ACTION (SYRIA)
Discharged : 23/08/1943
Date Died : N/A
Community Roll of Honour : N/A
Buried Location / Memorial (P.O.W., D.O.W., K.I.A.) : N/A
K.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
D.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
M.I.A. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. (location/s) : NO
Died P.O.W. (date / details) : N/A
P.O.W. Camps (details) : N/A
Recovered P.O.W. (location/s) : N/A
Honours and Gallantry : None for display
Applicable Australian War Memorial circulars : NO
References found (entries & photos) : National Archives of Australia (Barcode 6218200 [DIGITISED]), WW2 Nominal Roll
Background : 2/2 Pioneer from September 1940, was wounded in Syria and hospitalised, returning to the Pioneers only in late 1941 but transferred to Australian Headquarters Guard Battalion 12/01/1942.
