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- 1916 'PERSONAL ITEMS.
Private W. Pead, brother of Mrs S. Haddy, has been transferred from the Remount Corps to the artillery. Private Pead was known as one of the finest horsemen in the Victoria district in the 8o's. Since then he has been pretty well all over Australia and is now so far as is known in Egypt. [1]
Australian National Archive
Digital copy of service records- Geraldton Guardian Thursday 3 June 1920
FATAL FALL DOWN HOLD. MR. W. PEAD'S DEATH.
During the voyage down the coast of the steamer Charon, which reached Fremantle on Friday morning from Singapore, a passenger named William Pead, a returned soldier, aged 56 years, who joined the vessel at Onslow, was found lying unconscious in the ship's hold. On the steamer's arrival at the next port Carnarvon Pead was conveyed to the hospital, where he expired shortly after admission, a post mortem examination disclosing a fractured skull.
It seems that, pursuing the usual 'practice, the hatchway had been left open to give air to the cattle carried in the hold, and it is surmised that the unfortunate man fell, a distance of about 20ft through the open hatch. An inquest was opened and adjourned pending the return of tine Charon to Carnarvon.
Pead, who comes from an old West Australian familv. was well known throughout the northern part of the State, where he has spent many years, mostly in the cattle industry. He was one of the original Remount Unit which went over to Egypt in. 1915, and returning to Australia, after about twelve months' service in the Land of Pharoah, re-enlisted in the AIF. and saw a good deal of service in France with the 28th Battalion.
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1864 - 1920 (56 years)
