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 Arthur Lane of Victoria, Pte 2707 60th Battalion who was awarded the Croix de Guerre www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/search/itemDetailPaged.cgi?i...