William Charles Fubbs

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FUBBS, William Charles

Service no: 3834 [1]

Place of birth: Orange, 1879

Address: 142 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills

Occupation: Carpenter

Next of kin: Ada Jamieson Fubbs (wife), 4 Spring Street, Paddington, later Dubbo

Date of enlistment: 9 November 1916

Place of enlistment: Sydney

Age at enlistment: 37

Fate: Embarked HMAT Anchises A68, Sydney, 24 January 1917. Disembarked Devonport 27 March 1917. Marched into Pioneer Training Battalion, Sutton England, 27 March 1917. Proceeded to France 31 March 1918. Transferred to 6th Battalion 9 September 1918. Admitted to hospital suffering from acute colitis 21 October 1918. Transferred to 3rd Australian General Hospital Abbeville France, 4 November 1918. Admitted to 1st Australian Convalescent Depot France, suffering from myocarditis 20 November 1918. Discharged to Australian Infantry Base Depot 17 December 1918. Transferred to England 23 December 1918. Returned to Australia 15 March 1919. Discharged from AIF 16 April 1919 due to medical unfitness.

Date of death: 1941, Sydney


William Charles Fubbs was born in Orange in 1879 to William Andrew Fubbs and his wife Emma. William Junior’s grandfather - Joseph Fubbs - ran a confectionary shop on the corner of Anson and Byng Streets during the 1880s.

William moved to Sydney, marrying Ada Jamieson Scanlan in 1908. The couple was living in Surry Hills when William enlisted in November 1916, aged 37.

He embarked from Sydney in January 1917 and arrived in England in late March. Private Fubbs served in the 1st Pioneer Battalion, 10th Reinforcements, in England and France. He was hospitalised twice during his service; in October 1918 with acute colitis, and again the following month suffering from myocarditis.

William returned to Australia in March 1918 and was discharged from the AIF the following month. William and Emma travelled to the Central West during the shearing season, where William worked as a shearer and Emma, a shearers' cook.

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