• Title
  NSW servicemen portraits, 1918-19 - William Foilan
• Call number
  P1/Foilan, William
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1918-1919
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  431205
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 13 x 8 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Date of Birth: ca.1891
  Date of Enlistment: 18.7.1915
  Trade or Calling: Boot trade factory
  Born in or near what Town: Glebe Point
  Address prior to Enlistment: 22 Alice St Newtown
  Rank, Number, Battalion, Distinctions: Pte 2395 18th Battalion late 19th B Coy; wounded at Pozieres Aug 1916; fought at Peronne, Amiens, Le Hamel, Accroche Wood, Mout Le Quentin, Villers Brettonneux
  Casualities and where: Died of bronchial pneumonia in the 1st General Hospital, France 8.11.1918
  Memorial Panel: 85
  Cemetery or Memorial Details: France 122 Etretat Churchyard Extension
  Name & Address of Next of Kin: Mrs Elizabeth Noble Foilan (Mother) "The only son of his mother and she was a widow" 22 Alice St Newtown
  Name and last address of Father: John James Foilan
  Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
  When asked for "any other biographical details likely to be of interest to the Historian of the AIF, or of his Regiment", his mother replied "I know of none; only that he lived and died a good living clean lad and no better son ever lived." (AWM Roll of Honour Database)
  William Foilan had three cousins killed in action, one [was] Arthur Lane of Victoria, Pte 2707 60th Battalion who was awarded the Croix de Guerre
• General note
  
  For additional information, refer to the Australian War Memorial (online), Biographical Databases, First World War Nominal Roll
  Digital order no:a871479
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Biographical information taken from reverse of photograph
• Name
  Foilan, William
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  soldiers
  uniforms
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1498094

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