Service Details:

2 March	1915                      Blackboy Hill Training camp
9 June	1915                      Embarked from Fremantle
August	1915                      Embarked Egypt
2 August	1915                      Promoted L/Corporal
10 Sept. – 12 Dec.	1915                      Gallipoli
21 March	1916                      France
6/7 June	1916                      Trench Raid
29 July	1916                      Wounded, Pozieres (Sausage Valley)
17 October	1916                      Returned to Australia
28 April	1917                      Discharged

 

 

Biographical Details:

William John Sullivan was born to William and Elizabeth Sullivan in London in 1894. It’s not known when he travelled to Australia or his relationship to Mrs. E Bonnett whom he listed as his Next of Kin on his Attestation Papers.
When William enlisted in March 1915 he was working as a Fireman in Northam, Western Australia.
William trained at Blackboy Hill and Egypt before being sent to Gallipoli with the 28th Battalion. While in Egypt William was promoted to Lance Corporal. In February 1916, a few weeks before being transferred to France he was promoted to Corporal.
During the June Trench Raid William, with George Heathcote, was responsible for gathering as much intelligence as possible during the Raiders’ seven minutes in the German trenches.
In August the 28th Battalion was involved in the Battle of Pozieres.  William received a severe Gun Shot Wound to his left arm and consequently was transferred to England for treatment. Two months later, in October 1916, William was returned to Australia. He was discharged from the AIF in April 1917.
William settled in Australia and married Mabel Annie Broomehall in 1920.  It is believed that they had four children. 
William returned to his pre-war occupation and until he retired was an engine driver for the Western Australian Government Railways.
William died in Midland, WA, 1964, aged 69.  His widow applied for William’s ANZAC Medallion in 1967.