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WILLIAMS, Sydney Lory
(Service number 1196)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Timaru

Enlistment Information

Date	5 October 1914	Age	24 years 5 months
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Seaman
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Rev W J WILLIAMS, Hardwicke Street, Sumner, Christchurch
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	Australian Imperial Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Australian Imperial Force, 5th Battalion
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	1st Reinforcement
Date	22 December 1914
Transport	Themistocoles
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

DCM; MM

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date		Age
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sydney Lory WILLIAMS was the yougest son of the Rev. William James WILLIAMS, sometime Wesleyan minister at Timaru, by his first wife Alice Mary née HOSKING. Educated in Auckland, at Central Nelson School and at Nelson Boys' College. He was awarded the DCM and the Military Medal. He was one of five brother engaged in World War I activity. Brother Bertram Victor WILLIAMS was killed in action in 1917 in WWI; brother Hugh Hosking WILLIAMS served in WWI & WWII; brother Owen Wallis WILLIAMS served with distinction in WWI, brother Harold Whitmore WILLIAMS was a war correspondent in WWI.

Sources

Cenotaph Database [27 August 2015]; Timaru Herald, 5 June 1915, 6 July 1915, Colonist, 5, & 21 June 1915, 10 July 1915, 14 September 1916, 15 June 1917, Manawatu Times, 6 July 1915, 20 September 1915, Ashburton Guardian, 17 September 1915, Press, 12 September 1916, 26 April 1919, 19 February 1921. Nelson Evening Mail, 14 December 1916, New Zealand Herald, 12 May 1936,

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