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Name

William Henry Wooster

Birth: 22 Sep 1879, Emerald Hill, Victoria, Australia

Death: Abt. 1950   Tree

Rank: Private, Australian Imperial Force, 57th Battalion, 4th Reinforcements

Service no. 2277

Period of Service: 11 February 1916 to 31 August 1916

Discharged from Broadmeadows Camp as medically unfit due to a weak wrist and ankle following a broken arm six years earlier and a sprained ankle.

Portrait of William Henry Wooster taken around 23rd April 1916. This is one of a series of photographs taken by the Darge Photographic Company which had the concession to take photographs at the Broadmeadows and Seymour army camps during the First World War. In the 1930's, the Australian War Memorial purchased the original glass negatives from Algernon Darge, along with the photographers' notebooks. The notebooks contain brief details, usually a surname or unit name, for each negative. The names are transcribed as they appear in the notebooks.

Enlistment Documents

Service Records

Discharge Records

Sources: AWM Collection Record: DA14793

 

 

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