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New Zealand Completed Requests / Sydney Lory Williams - does he belong to anyone?
« on: Tuesday 07 October 14 22:36 BST (UK) »
Hello,
I've been looking at my great-uncle's Australian WW1 service records as today is the 97th anniversary of his death in 1917.
In July 1916, he was recommended for the military medal for bravery, along with another man - Lance Corporal S.L. Williams. So I set off on a hunt to identify this man and am fairly sure that he was Sydney Lory Williams, born c1890, son of the Reverend W.J. Williams of Christchurch New Zealand.
L/Cpl Williams was awarded the DCM for his actions at Pozières in 1916. For some reason, my great uncle, James Shaw Howe wasn't, though they were named together in the report.
I wonder if anyone has Sydney in their family tree and if so, are there any photographs of him during his military service. There is just the slimmest chance that two men who served side by side, might have been photographed together. I have no photograph of James so am clutching at straws but here, in the world of Rootschat, that isn't always such a silly thing to do!
Fingers crossed,
Jen
I've been looking at my great-uncle's Australian WW1 service records as today is the 97th anniversary of his death in 1917.
In July 1916, he was recommended for the military medal for bravery, along with another man - Lance Corporal S.L. Williams. So I set off on a hunt to identify this man and am fairly sure that he was Sydney Lory Williams, born c1890, son of the Reverend W.J. Williams of Christchurch New Zealand.
L/Cpl Williams was awarded the DCM for his actions at Pozières in 1916. For some reason, my great uncle, James Shaw Howe wasn't, though they were named together in the report.
I wonder if anyone has Sydney in their family tree and if so, are there any photographs of him during his military service. There is just the slimmest chance that two men who served side by side, might have been photographed together. I have no photograph of James so am clutching at straws but here, in the world of Rootschat, that isn't always such a silly thing to do!
Fingers crossed,
Jen