William Barton Westhead

Enlistment Date

28/08/1915

Age At Enlistment

Rank On Enlistment

Private

Rank Attained At War’s End

Corporal

Regimental No.

4582

Battalion

3rd Battalion, 14th Reinforcement

Fate

Returned

Fate Date

13/02/1917

Occupation

Printer

Place of Birth

Wigan, England

Religion

Church of England

Marital Status

Single

Embarkation Details

Embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Osterley on 15 January 1916

On 23 March 1917, the Newcastle Morning Herald reported, "CORPORAL WESTHEAD.—Mr. and Mrs. Westhead, Dixon-street, Hamilton, late of Merewether, have been informed that their son, Acting-corporal W. B. Westhead, 1st Brigade Machine Gun Company, has been invalided home, and will arrive in Sydney the beginning of April." William Westhead appears on the Merewether Advance honor board. Before enlisting, at the age of 18, he was making regular appearance in Merewether's lower grade teams. Corporal Westhead was wounded in the chest on 19 August 1916 in a field in France. He died in Merewether in 1965, aged 68.