Veteran Notes/Bio
5th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse, Trooper No. 397
Born at Araluen in 1880, the third child of Robert ]ohn and Matilda Guy. His father was a farmer at Boro, near Braidwood.
At the age of 21 years and seven months he enlisted in D Squadron of the 5th Battalion at Goulburn on 22 April 1902. At the time, he was working as a labourer and living at Boro, but had no previous service in the army.
After the Boer War, William worked as a labourer at “Hazeldell”, Manar. He married Ellen May Harriott on 30 March 1910 at St Philip’s Church, Bungendore. They had five children: Douglas, Hazel, Robert, Gordon and Isobel.
The 1917 Electoral Roll showed that both William and Ellen were living in Bungendore and William was still working at “Hazeldell”.
When William died aged 64 years on 2 August 1945 he was buried in the Bungendore Cemetery.