NX51762 - BYLOS, Vincent (Vince), Pte. - B Company, 11
Platoon
NX26858 - GILLIGAN, William Herbert (Bill), Pte. - B
Company, 10 Platoon
Alex Dandie found out that Bill Gilligan
was a cousin of Mrs. Barbara Cracknell of West Ryde, the
wife of the then President of the 1st Denistone Scout Group
and a Manager of the C.B.C. Sydney, Kent St. Branch. Mrs
Cracknell at Ingleburn Camp to welcome him back on Recovery
says that Bill's mate, Vince Bylos, having died in Darwin,
after he had been landed from the "Esperance Bay", too sick
to continue the journey, was not with the unit to greet his
Mother and family, who were there to meet him, and that Bill
went over to Vince's Mother, before he greeted his own
family, to console her over the loss of her son, taking her
in his arms as he broke the sad news to her.
(Source:
NX26858, 2/30 Battalion Archives)
