Participant Info

Surname

Oates

First Name

William

Initial

H

Service Number

3798

Rank

lance-corporal

Unit Served

1st Battalion, 1st Brigade

Service Record

Egypt, France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

August 10

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

December 11

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 89, image page 88

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

William and Mary Oates

Parental Address

"Chelsea", Campsie Street, Campsie

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born at Ballarat, Victoria, December 6, 1897, educated Mount Pleasant Superior School, Ballarat, enlisted August 1915, embarked December 1915. War service: Egypt, France (wounded, Strazelle, April 1918), invalided to 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighto