William Slade Vincent

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Arrival in Australia

Landing in Port Melbourne, William found it hard to settle down into civilian life. The sixteen year old Adelaide schoolboy had become a seasoned veteran of fighting in the trenches of France and Belgium. He had been wounded, a wound which he still carried, and showed his gallantry by winning the M.C.

He had no experience in looking after himself, with leaving school and going straight from a “sheltered” family life into the British Army. When William landed in Melbourne, it would have been an enormous challenge for him to assimilate in a society that could not understand what he had been through.

The fact that his mother and father were still living at Flat 3, Devonshire Mansions, 20 Devonshire Terrace, London, at the time of his arrival in Melbourne, meant he had no immediate family in Melbourne but did have an Uncle Robert Vincent, living there.

Major and Alice Electoral Roll 1920 and 1921 [86]

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[86] Find My Past