William Kirkwood

Service number: 2831

Rank: Private

Unit: 3rd Pioneers

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Source: National Archives of Australia

William Kirkwood was born at Canterbury in 1896. He was a stoker. He enlisted on 7 July 1916, giving his next of kin as his mother, living at Crown Road, Queenscliff.

He embarked on the Benallaon 9 November 1916, and served with the 3rd Pioneer Battalion.

After the war he was posted to the Vickers yard at Barrow-in-Furness to paint ships for several months.

He married Myrtle James of Goldhanger, Essex on 23 August 1919, and they returned to Australia on the Benallaon 8 October 1919.