William Thomas Curnow
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CURNOW, William Thomas
Service no: 4522 [1]
Place of birth: Ironbarks, via Stuart Town
Address: Commercial Hotel, Cumnock
Occupation: Labourer
Next of kin: Richard Rowe Curnow (father), 34 Clinton Street, Orange
Date of enlistment: 31 October 1916
Place of enlistment: Bathurst
Age at enlistment: 22
Fate: Embarked HMAT A72 Beltana, Sydney, 25 November 1916. Taken on strength to 30th Battalion 28 May 1917. Wounded in the field 26 October 1917. Transferred to England for treatment and convalescence. Returned to France 24 January 1918. Wounded in action in the field 23 June 1918. Rejoined unit 4 August 1918. Killed in action, France, 31 August 1918
Date of death: 31 August 1918
Buried: Heath Military Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France, Plot 6, Row D, Grave 16
William Thomas Curnow was born in 1894 in Stuart Town, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Curnow. He enlisted on 31 October 1916 at Bathurst. William saw service on the Western Front and was wounded twice before being killed in action on 31 August 1918 when a bomb exploded next to him in a German dugout at Foucaucourt. Comrades buried him in situ and his body was later exhumed and reinterred at the Heath Military Cemetery at Harbonnieres, France.
Private William Curnow is commemorated on the Cumnock WWI Honour Plaque and War Memorial Gates in Obley Street, Cumnock, and on panel number 139 on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra
- Sharon Jameson and Margaret Nugent, January 2019
Cumnock NSW War Memorials - William Thomas Curnow [2]