CPL G W FEILD, No 3 Sqn AFC, died 08/11/1918

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Cpl Feild died from pneumonia in the UK two days before the Armistice. He was the last member of the Australian Flying Corps to die in the War.

CWGC:

Name: FEILD, GUSTAV WILLIAM

Initials: G W

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Corporal

Regiment: Australian Flying Corps

Unit Text: 3rd Sqdn.

Age: 34

Date of Death: 09/11/1918

Service No: 787

Additional information: Son of Alfred Francis and Louisa Sarlaw Feild, of 3, Ascot St., North Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Born at Murtoa, Victoria.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Aust. 98.

Cemetery: HAREFIELD (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Country: United Kingdom

Locality: Middlesex

Historical Information: During the two world wars, the United Kingdom became an island fortress used for training troops and launching land, sea and air operations around the globe. There are more than 170,000 Commonwealth war graves in the United Kingdom, many being those of servicemen and women killed on active service, or who later succumbed to wounds. Others died in training accidents, or because of sickness or disease. The graves, many of them privately owned and marked by private memorials, will be found in more than 12,000 cemeteries and churchyards. Harefield (St. Mary) Churchyard contains war graves from both world wars. There are 120 First World War graves, mostly those of Australians who died in No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield Park. Uniquely, their graves are marked by scroll shaped headstones, chosen by the staff and patients at the hospital. In the centre of the Australian plot stands a memorial obelisk which was erected by Sir Francis Newdegate, late Governor of Tasmania and of Western Australia, and Mr. C.A.M. Billyard-Leake, of Harefield Park. The churchyard also contains six graves of the Second World War.

No. of Identified Casualties: 129

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