William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890

William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
	William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)	William Hunter SNADDEN (1867 - 1935)	John SNADDEN (1819 - 1893)	Andrew SNADDEN (1773 - )
				Janet PATERSON (1777 - )
			Mary HUNTER (1830 - 1903)	Joseph HUNTER (1806 - 1851)
				Jean Janet Jane PATTERSON (1803 - 1873)
		Alice Maria RICHARDS (1857 - 1930)	John RICHARDS (1813 - )

			Elizabeth NOYES (1818 - )

Pic P1. In Memory of
ALICE MARIA
loved wife of
WILLIAM H SNEDDON
died 20th Dec 1930
aged 66 years
also
WILLIAM HUNTER
beloved husband of ALICE SNEDDON
died 4 Dec 1935
aged 68 years
also
RUBY MAY
beloved infant of above
also
Private
William Leslie Snaddon
Killed in Action Battle of Messines
7th June 1917 aged 27 years

Pic 1. In Memory of
ALICE MARIA
loved wife of
WILLIAM H SNEDDON
died 20th Dec 1930
aged 66 years
also
WILLIAM HUNTER
beloved husband of ALICE SNEDDON
died 4 Dec 1935
aged 68 years
also
RUBY MAY
beloved infant of above
also
Private
William Leslie Snaddon
Killed in Action Battle of Messines
7th June 1917 aged 27 years

b. 1890 at West Maitland, NSW, Australia

d. 07 Jun 1917 at Messines, Belgium aged 27

Near Relatives of William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	John SNADDEN	15 Apr 1819	Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	18 Jan 1893	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	73
Grandmother	Mary HUNTER	abt 1830	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	06 Jun 1903	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	73
Grandfather	John RICHARDS	1813	Marylebone, London, England
Grandmother	Elizabeth NOYES	1818	Newbury, Berkshire, England

Father	William Hunter SNADDEN	1867	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	04 Dec 1935	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	68
Mother	Alice Maria RICHARDS	1857	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	20 Dec 1930	Minmi , Newcastle, NSW, Australia	73

Self	William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN	1890	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	07 Jun 1917	Messines, Belgium	27

Brother	John Adrian Rudolph (Ade) SNADDEN	1888	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1950	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	62
Brother	Lyall Joseph B SNADDEN	1891	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1961	Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia	70
Brother	Thomas Herbert (Bert) E SNADDEN	1893	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	13 Jun 1967	Wyong, NSW, Australia	74
Sister	Ivy Pearl SNADDEN	1895	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1977		82
Sister	Ruby May SNADDEN	1896	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	1896	Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	0
Brother	Francis Maitland SNADDEN	1899	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1976		77

Uncle	Andrew A SNADDEN	1842	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	1878	Lambton, NSW, Australia	36
Uncle	John SNADDEN	1845	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	1859	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	14
Aunt	Isabella SNADDEN	abt 1850	Sauchie, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	bef 1855		5
Aunt	Jane SNADDEN	29 May 1854	Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland	1917	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	63
Uncle	Frank (SHEERS) SHEARS	abt 1846		15 Mar 1911	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	65
Aunt	Janet Patterson SNADDEN	1856	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1895	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	39
Uncle	Peter BLAIR
Aunt	Mary C SNADDEN	1858	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1860	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	2
Uncle	Joseph Hunter SNADDEN	1863	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1938	Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia	75
Aunt	Jane KIRKWOOD?			1923	Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
Uncle	Robert Hunter SNADDEN	1865	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1954	Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia	89
Aunt	Sarah Mary Josephine SCULLY	1865	Co Tipperary, Ireland	28 May 1919	Marickville, Sydney, NSW, Australia	54
Aunt	Mary Jane MCCOLL
Uncle	John SNADDEN	05 Jan 1865	Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle	James SNADDEN	1871	Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle	Thomas SNADDEN	1871	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1960	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	89
Aunt	Julia Elizabeth PAUL	1864	Penrith, NSW, Australia	1958	Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	94

Cousin	George SHEARS	1874	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1876	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	2
Cousin	Francis George John SHEARS	1876	Maitland, NSW, Australia	1878	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	2
Cousin	Mary Eliza SHEARS	1878	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1963	Cessnock, NSW, Australia	85
Cousin	Thomas Frederick SHEARS	1880	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	09 Apr 1918	Villers Bretonneux, France	38
Cousin	Janet SHEARS	1882	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	15 Apr 1972	Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	90
Cousin	Joseph Hunter SHEARS	1884	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1960	Cessnock, NSW, Australia	76
Cousin	William Sneddon SHEARS	1887	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1947	Cessnock, NSW, Australia	60
Cousin	Sarah A SHEARS	1890	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Thomas S SHEARS	1891	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1892	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1
Cousin	Harry (Henry) SHEARS	1894	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	09 Jun 1917	Messines, Belgium	23
Cousin	Claude BLAIR	1886	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1904	Cobar, NSW, Australia	18
Cousin	Janet E BLAIR	1888	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1890	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	2
Cousin	Peter J BLAIR	1889	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Ethel A P BLAIR	1892	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Veda SNADDEN	1899	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1958	Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia	59
Cousin	Joseph V SNADDEN	1901	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1903	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	2
Cousin	Nicoll KIRKWOOD
Cousin	Robert SNADDEN	1886	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1954		68
Cousin	Johanna Sarah SNADDEN	1888	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Thomas S SNADDEN	1891	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia	1896	Hunters Hill, NSW, Australia	5
Cousin	Sarah Millicent SNADDEN	1894	Hurstville, NSW, Australia
Cousin	Mary Elizabeth SNADDEN	14 Jan 1898	Hurstville, NSW, Australia	29 Oct 1985	Burwood, New South Wales, Australia	87
Cousin	Elizabeth Taylor SNADDEN	1895	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	1957	Newcastle, NSW, Australia	62
Cousin	Mary H SNADDEN	1898	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin	John (Jack) SNADDEN	1900	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	28 May 1903	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	3

Niece	Doris SNADDEN
Niece	Mavis SNADDEN
Nephew	William SNADDEN
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Niece	Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew	Thomas Leslie SNADDEN	abt 1916		29 Jun 1987	Minmi , Newcastle, NSW, Australia	71
Nephew	William John SNADDEN	abt 1916		1951	Paterson, NSW, Australia	35

Sister in Law	Lucy May COWMEADOW
Sister in Law	Gladys PRICE
Sister in Law	Janet Sophia BURGESS	abt 1897	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	22 Jul 1963	Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	66
Brother in Law	George PRITCHARD
Sister in Law	Delcie E NEWTON

Events in William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1890		William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN was born	West Maitland, NSW, Australia	Reg No. 20529/1890	17
1916	26	Military Service	Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia	Note 1	64
07 Jun 1917	27	William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN died	Messines, Belgium	Note 2	60

Note 1: Leslie SNEDDON

Regimental number 896
Date of birth 29 January 1896
Place of birth West Maitlland, New south Wales
Other Names William Leslie Hunter
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Miner
Address Minmi, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, William Sneddon, Minmi, New South Wales
Enlistment date 10 January 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 34th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/51/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 2 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 34th Battalion
Date of death 7 June 1917
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 124

Note 2: Minmi cem - 896 Pte 34 Bn kia, battle of Messines, France. Son/William & Alice Maria

see also
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=282706

Sydney Morning Herald 21 July 1917
SNEDDON.-Killed in action, France, June 7, 1917, Private William Leslie Hunter (Leslie) Sneddon, aged 27 years, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneddon, and brother of Adrian, Lyall, Bert, Ivy, and Frank Sneddon, Church-street, Minmi

Source References:

17. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: NSW bdm register, Title: NSW bdm register

- Reference = (Birth)

- Notes: Reg No. 20529/1890

60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

- Reference = (Death)

- Notes: Sydney Morning Herald 21 July 1917
SNEDDON.-Killed in action, France, June 7, 1917, Private William Leslie Hunter (Leslie) Sneddon, aged 27 years, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneddon, and brother of Adrian, Lyall, Bert, Ivy, and Frank Sneddon, Church-street, Minmi

64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au

- Reference = (Military Service)

- Notes: Leslie SNEDDON

Regimental number 896
Date of birth 29 January 1896
Place of birth West Maitlland, New south Wales
Other Names William Leslie Hunter
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Miner
Address Minmi, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, William Sneddon, Minmi, New South Wales
Enlistment date 10 January 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 34th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/51/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 2 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 34th Battalion
Date of death 7 June 1917
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 124

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