PEART, William Andrew Reginald

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Fate
  5. Commemoration
  6. Notes
  7. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
01/07/1915
Place of Enlistment
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
30/11/1895
Place of Birth
Rushworth, Victoria
Address (at enlistment)
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Occupation
Soldier
Next of Kin
Andrew Peart (father), Moonee Ponds, Victoria
Burial Place

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium plot 21, row EE, grave 4

Unit and Rank Details

Final Rank
Major
Final Unit
2 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

Fate

Died of wounds on 3 November 1917, aged 21 years

Commemoration

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 12, Canberra ACT

Notes

Peart entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 9 March 1913 and was probably a spectator at the Canberra naming ceremony a few days later. He graduated on 28 June 1915 and was appointed as a Lieutenant three days later, sailing for Egypt in November 1915 as a Lieutenant with the 11th Battery, 4th Field Artillery Brigade. He transferred to the 23rd Field Artillery Brigade in July 1916 and was appointed as a Captain shortly afterwards. He arrived in France in January 1917 and was posted to the 7th Field Artillery Brigade. Following the battles around Bullecourt in April and May 1917, Peart was sent for training as a Brigade Major and then posted to the 4th Battery, 2nd Field Artillery Brigade in September 1917 with the rank of Major. On 2 November 1917 he was admitted to the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station suffering from gas poisoning and he died there the following day. Peart was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium in plot 21, row EE, grave 4.

Sources

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
AWM Roll of Honour
AWM Collections Record : 1DRL/0543, AWM P10221.010

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William Peart (left). AWM image AWM P10221.010.

William Peart (left). AWM image AWM P10221.010.

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