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Wilfred Price SIMMONDS

Regimental number5681
Place of birthToowong, Queensland
SchoolToowong and Taringa State Schools and Brisbane Boys Grammar School, Queensland
Other trainingMedicine, University of Queensland.
ReligionBaptist
OccupationStudent
AddressHigh Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinMother, Mrs Louisa Emily Simmonds, High Street, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland
Enlistment date4 January 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name25th Battalion, 15th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/42/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A46 Clan Macgillivray on 7 September 1916
Rank from Nominal RollCorporal
Unit from Nominal Roll25th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularWas an instructor in physical and bayonet training between May and July 1917.
FateKilled in Action 4 October 1917
Place of death or woundingZonnebeke, Belgium
Age at death21.7
Age at death from cemetery records21
Place of burialTyne Cot Cemetery (Plot XXII, Row G, Grave No. 8), Passchendaele, Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
106
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Commemorated on University of Queensland Roll of Honour ('Pro Patria Ceciderunt'; They fell for their Country), St Lucia, Queensland. Parents: Frederick and Louisa SIMMONDS, Ebor Street, High Street, Toowong, Queensland
Family/military connectionsUncle: Sir S.A. PETHERBRIDGE, Rabaul Administrator; Cousins: 393B Pte Lyle Vincent D'Oyley PRICE, 2nd Machine Gun Bn, killed in action, 9 July 1918; 3409 Pte Owen Bennion PRICE, 42nd Bn, killed in action, 9 August 1918.
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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