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Able Seaman WILLIAM GEORGE VINCENT WILLIAMS

Service Number: 294
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Australian Naval Reserve

Date of Death

Died 11 September 1914

Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY

AA. B. 3.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
  • Country of Service Australian
  • N.B. W.G.V. Williams was the first recorded Australian casualty of the First World War.
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Buried or commemorated at

RABAUL (BITA PAKA) WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 1153
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