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William J SNADDEN (1891 - 1917)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
William J SNADDEN (1891 - 1917) Alexander SNADDEN (1846 - 1922) Andrew SNADDEN (1823 - 1903) Andrew SNADDEN (1798 - 1875)
Elizabeth (Paton) HUNTER (1797 - 1878)
Agnes DONOVAN (1824 - 1897) Alexander DONOVAN
Elizabeth (DONOVAN)
Christina JOHNSTON ( - 1929) Alexander JOHNSTON ( - 1881)



Flora MCTAGGART ( - 1892)



William J SNADDEN
William J SNADDEN
Pic P1. In Loving Memory of
WILLIAM JOHN
third son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
who was killed in
action at YPRES
12 Oct 1917

also JOHN HUGH
fourth son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
died 22 Nov 1898
aged 2 months

also
ELEANORA MARY SNEDDON

Pic 1. In Loving Memory of
WILLIAM JOHN
third son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
who was killed in
action at YPRES
12 Oct 1917

also JOHN HUGH
fourth son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
died 22 Nov 1898
aged 2 months

also
ELEANORA MARY SNEDDON

b. 1891 at Marrickville, NSW, Australia
d. 1917 at Ypres, Belgium aged 26
Near Relatives of William J SNADDEN (1891 - 1917)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Andrew SNADDEN 06 Mar 1823 Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 01 Dec 1903 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 80
Grandmother Agnes DONOVAN abt 1824 Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 05 Nov 1897 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73
Grandfather Alexander JOHNSTON 1881 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Grandmother Flora MCTAGGART 1892 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Father Alexander SNADDEN abt 1846 Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland 1922 Annandale, NSW, Australia 76
Mother Christina JOHNSTON 30 Sep 1929 Cremorne, NSW, Australia

Self William J SNADDEN 1891 Marrickville, NSW, Australia 1917 Ypres, Belgium 26

Sister Flora SNADDEN 1878 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Brother Andrew William SNADDEN 1880 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1945 Mosman, NSW, Australia 65
Sister Agnes Isabel (Bell) SNADDEN 1882 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1964 Sydney, NSW, Australia 82
Sister Elizabeth SNADDEN 1884 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1884 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 0
Brother Alexander J SNADDEN 1887 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1892 Marrickville, NSW, Australia 5
Brother Ronald Johnston SNADDEN 1893 Marrickville, NSW, Australia
Sister Margaret J SNADDEN 1896 Marrickville, NSW, Australia
Brother John H SNADDEN 1898 Marrickville, NSW, Australia 1898 Marrickville, NSW, Australia 0

Uncle Andrew SNADDEN 1844 Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland 27 Mar 1904 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 60
Aunt Frances PEATTIE abt 1844 1922 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 78
Aunt Elizabeth SNADDEN 1848 Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Aunt Agnes SNADDEN 1850 Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Aunt Margaret SNADDEN 1853 Airdrie, Lanark, Scotland
Uncle William SNADDEN 05 Jun 1857 New Monkland, Lanark, Scotland 1858 At sea 1
Uncle William SNADDEN 1859 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1906 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 47
Aunt Agnes Smith Montgomery SINCLAIR 06 May 1862 Killwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland 11 May 1949 Teralba, NSW, Australia 87
Uncle Daniel SNADDEN abt 1860
Aunt Agnes SNADDEN 1862 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1948 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 86
Uncle Allen COLEMAN
Uncle Ronald JOHNSTON 1849 Goulburn, NSW, Australia 1911 Inverell, NSW, Australia 62

Cousin Charlotte Elizabeth SNADDEN 1864 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1938 Toronto, NSW, Australia 74
Cousin Andrew SNADDEN 1867 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1933 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 66
Cousin Daniel SNADDEN 1869 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1958 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 89
Cousin Agnes Edith SNADDEN 1871 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Alexander SNADDEN 1873 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1889 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 16
Cousin Elizabeth SNADDEN 1875 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Janet Ann SNADDEN 1879 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Fanny M SNADDEN 1881 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin William SNADDEN 1884 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1961 Chatswood, NSW, Australia 77
Cousin Marion Cummings SNADDEN 24 Jan 1885 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 15 Oct 1959 Maitland, NSW, Australia 74
Cousin Andrew SNADDEN 1886 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 23 Feb 1917 France 31
Cousin David SNADDEN 1888 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin William SNADDEN 1890 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Agnes COLEMAN 1884 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1886 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Mary COLEMAN 1886 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Allen COLEMAN 1888 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1943 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 55
Cousin Joseph C COLEMAN 1891 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1925 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 34
Cousin Andrew Sneddon COLEMAN 1894 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1963 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 69
Cousin Ivy M COLEMAN 1900 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Niece Nancy SNADDEN

Brother in Law Alfred James GREEN
Sister in Law Amy (SNADDEN)
Sister in Law Mollie BARNARD
Brother in Law Daryl T MCAULEY
Events in William J SNADDEN (1891 - 1917)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
Other Event - Memorial Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW, Australia Note 1
1891 William J SNADDEN was born Marrickville, NSW, Australia Note 2 17
22 Feb 1915 24 Military Service Leichhardt, Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 3 64
1917 26 William J SNADDEN died Ypres, Belgium Note 4 60, 64
Note 1: In Loving Memory of
WILLIAM JOHN
third son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
who was killed in
action at YPRES
... Oct 1917

also JOHN HUGH
fourth son of
Alexn & Christina SNEDDON
died 22 Nov 1898
aged 2 months
Note 2: reg no 21569/1891 - Marrickville - Alexander and Christina
Note 3: William John SNEDDON

Regimental number 7124
Place of birth Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales
School Petersham, Public School, Sydney, New South Wales
Religion Church of England
Occupation Clerk
Address 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 25
Next of kin Father, Mr A Sneddon, 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the School Cadets, New South Wales.
Enlistment date 22 February 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/24/4
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 23 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 37th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death 26
Age at death from cemetery records 26
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 129
Note 4: Sydney Morning Herald 12 Nov 1917
SNEDDON.-Corporal William John Sneddon. aged 25 years, second son of Alexander Sneddon, 190 Elswick street, Leichardt, killed in action in France, October 12, 1917.

Sydney Morning Herald 14 Oct 1918
SNEDDON.-In loving memory of Corporal William John Sneddon, killed in action in France, October 12, 1917, third son of Alexander and Christina Sneddon, 190 Elswick-street, Leichhardt, and brother of Ronald (on active service).

William John SNEDDON
Regimental number 7124
Place of birth Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales
School Petersham, Public School, Sydney, New South Wales
Religion Church of England
Occupation Clerk
Address 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 25
Next of kin Father, Mr A Sneddon, 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the School Cadets, New South Wales.
Enlistment date 22 February 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/24/4
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 23 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 37th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death 26
Age at death from cemetery records 26
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 129
Source References:
17. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: NSW bdm register, Title: NSW bdm register
- Reference = (Birth)
- Notes: reg no 21569/1891 - Marrickville - Alexander and Christina
- Reference = (Name, Notes)
- Notes: reg no 21569/1891 - Marrickville - Alexander and Christina
60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: Sydney Morning Herald 12 Nov 1917
SNEDDON.-Corporal William John Sneddon. aged 25 years, second son of Alexander Sneddon, 190 Elswick street, Leichardt, killed in action in France, October 12, 1917.

Sydney Morning Herald 14 Oct 1918
SNEDDON.-In loving memory of Corporal William John Sneddon, killed in action in France, October 12, 1917, third son of Alexander and Christina Sneddon, 190 Elswick-street, Leichhardt, and brother of Ronald (on active service).
64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au
- Reference = (Military Service)
- Notes: William John SNEDDON

Regimental number 7124
Place of birth Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales
School Petersham, Public School, Sydney, New South Wales
Religion Church of England
Occupation Clerk
Address 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 25
Next of kin Father, Mr A Sneddon, 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the School Cadets, New South Wales.
Enlistment date 22 February 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/24/4
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 23 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 37th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death 26
Age at death from cemetery records 26
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 129
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: William John SNEDDON

Regimental number 7124
Place of birth Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales
School Petersham, Public School, Sydney, New South Wales
Religion Church of England
Occupation Clerk
Address 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 25
Next of kin Father, Mr A Sneddon, 190 Elswick Street, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military service Served in the School Cadets, New South Wales.
Enlistment date 22 February 1915
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 7th Battalion, 23rd Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/24/4
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 23 November 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 37th Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 12 October 1917
Place of death or wounding Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death 26
Age at death from cemetery records 26
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), 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 129
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