William Barnsley was born in Norwood, South Australia on the 25\/09\/1892 to William & Alice Barnsley. His mother died when he was ten years old, and his father, a dairyman, relocated to Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Barnsley first appeared in Broome on the 1914 & 1915 electoral roll as an assistant. He worked for A.G. Russell, who had pearling interests and a store in Broome.<\/p>\n
Bill enlisted for the AIF in Broome in April 1915, his attestation paper was signed by the Mayor of Broome, W. Clarke-Hall. He was assigned to the 28th Battalion, A Company, a regiment that included nine other men from Broome. <\/span>The battalion left Australia in June, aboard the Acanius<\/em> and, after two months spent training in Egypt, landed at Gallipoli in September. Only eight days after landing, Bill was hit by shrapnel and died. He is memorialised at the Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial in Gallipoli.<\/span><\/p>\n [su_expand height=”0″ link_color=”#e5be5e” link_align=”center”]<\/p>\n Date of Enlistment: 12\/04\/1915 [su_quote cite=”The West Australian, Thursday 9 December 1915, p.8″] An impressive in memoriam service was conducted at Wattle Grove on Sunday for Private W. Barnsley, of the 28th reinforcements, who was killed at the Dardanelles. The fallen soldier, who was the son of Mr. W. Barnsley, dairyman, of Wattle Grove, was killed by shrapnel eight days after reaching the trenches. He was formerly engaged in pearling operations in the Nor’-West, and was well known at Broome and Derby. The service was conducted by the Rev. W. Seddon, pastor of the Congregational Church, and was of a simple but impressive character.[\/su_quote]<\/em><\/p>\n [su_carousel source=”media: 297,296,298,299,300,1017″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”720″ items=”4″]<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n View William Barnsley at the National Archives of Australia<\/a> About William Barnsley William Barnsley was born in Norwood, South Australia on the 25\/09\/1892 to William & Alice Barnsley. His mother died when he was ten years old, and his father, a dairyman, relocated to Western Australia. Broome Connection Barnsley first appeared in Broome on … Continue reading BARNSLEY William Norwood Croft<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions\/2708"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Enlistment Details<\/h3>\n
\nPlace of Enlistment: Broome, Western Australia
\nOccupation: Storeman
\nAge at Enlistment: 22
\nService Number: 1016
\nUnit: 28th Battalion, A Company
\nRank: Private
\nFate: Killed in Action
\nPlace of Death: Lower Cheshire, Gallipoli Peninsula
\nDate of Death: 3\/10\/1915
\nCemetery or Memorial Details: Memorialised at <\/span> Lone Pine Cemetery and Memorial<\/span><\/span> Gallipoli<\/span>, Canakkale<\/span>, Turkey<\/span> <\/span>
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