William Harold Sweet [22054] ¹

   FamilySearch ID: LHB2-5HF.

  Death Notes:

Repatriation Hospital, Keswick, SA. The cause of death was Died of injuries sustained in WW2.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service: 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, 1914 Aug 19 to 1919 Feb 23. ² Enlisted: 19 aug 1914
Born: Adelaide
Age: 21 7/12 years
Occupation: Shoeing Smith
Had previous service for 3 years
Served in France in 3^rd Field Artillery Brigade
Suffered Gas Poisoning '96 13 jun 1918
Discharged: 23 feb 1919


Title
SWEET William Harold : Service Number -2773 : Place of Birth -Adelaide SA : Place of Enlistment -Morphettville SA : Next of Kin -(Mother) SWEET Annie

• Newspaper: BALAKLAVA TRAGEDY, 1928 Oct 20, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ³ BALAKLAVA TRAGEDY. (1928, October 20). The Register(Adelaide, SA : 1901 -1929), p. 5. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56765136>

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Rail Car Driver's Evidence. William Harold Sweet, of Adelaide, motorman in the South Australian Rail-ways, declared that he was in charge of a rail car travelling from Moonta to Ade-laide on September 29. The distance sig-nal was against him and he changed into free gear and coasted until the signal dropped, which he acknowledged with one short blast, as usual. He believed he travelled over the crossing at 30 m.p.h., which he considered a safe speed over that section. There was no restriction on the speed. When 70 to 100 yards away from the crossing he saw a motor lorry travel-ling gradually slower to the crossing. When he first saw the truck it was 30 to40 yards from the crossing. A drizzling rain made accurate judgment impossible. He did not see the lorry move until it was on the rails, when he thought it was travelling at 12 to 15 m.p.h. -He was doing 25 m.p.h. when he saw the lorry on the line. He applied the emergency brake, but his rail car struck the lorry in the middle. 'The wet condition of the rails made the working of the brake less effec-tive. He had driven a rail car for two years and had had 15 years previous firing experience. He was cut on the hand with broken glass.

• Newspaper: THE BALAKLAVA SMASH, 1928 Oct 27, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ⁴ THE BALAKLAVA SMASH. (1928, October 27). Chronicle(Adelaide, SA : 1895 -1954), p. 53. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87569990>

Balaklava, October 22.
On Saturday the inquest into the circumstances of the death of Mr. George Radgway was concluded. The coroner (Mr. D. W. McArthur) found that he died as the result of a frac-tured spine and crushing injuries to the abdomen and chest, through a col-lision between a rail car, driven by William Harold Sweet and a truck driven by Charles Ridgway on the morning of September 29, at the Whit-warta-road railway crossing. I find also that there is no evidence to show what precaution, if any, the driver of the track took to prevent the accident. On the other hand, there is evidence to show that the driver of the railcar thought that the driver of the truck was about to stop, and when he found the truck still going on he took all reasonable means in his power to prevent the accident. As a rider I would like to add that the siren should be sounded at the dis-tance signal, and again at the crossing, as is done at the present and since the accident; also that on the morn-ings of Balaklava show days the Rail-ways Department place an official on each of the two crossings during the time that the special trains are run-ning. Messrs. George Henderson and O'Connell expressed appreciation of the coroner's consideration in allow-ing them to address him at the con-clusion of a protracted sitting when all witnesses had been heard. Although the action was unusual it was not un-precedented.

• Newspaper: On Controlled Route Without Licence, 1932 Sep 23, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ⁵ On Controlled Route Without Licence. (1932, September 23).The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 -1954), p. 19. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article73997642>

On Controlled Route Without Licence
William Harold Sweet, of Myer street, Torrensville, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court yesterday, with having driven a motor car for hire over a controlled route between Adelaide and Eden Valley on August 20 without having a licence under the Road and Railway Transport Act; and Allan John Shard of Goldfinch avenue, Cowandilla, with having caused the car to be driven over that route. Mr. M. H. Besanko, of the Crown Law Office prosecuted.
Shard told the court that he had been appointed umpire for the Mur-ray Valley Football Association final, and as Sweet had a car and was out of work, he thought they might make a pleasure jaunt of the trip. He in-serted an advertisement in the paper, and Sweet did not know when they left that they were to pick up two other men. They took them to Mount Pleasant, and nothing was said about fares, the idea being that the men. would help to pay for the petrol. Shard said he did not drive the car.
Mr. K. H. Kirkman, S.M., said it was an isolated act on the part of the defendants, who were not carrying passengers as a regular thing, but gave the two men a ride for the purposes of reducing the expenses of the trip. The purposes of the Act would be served by the imposition of a nominal penalty.
A fine of £1, with 12/6 costs was imposed.

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1950 Nov 17, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ⁶ Family Notices. (1950, November 17). The Advertiser(Adelaide, SA : 1931 -1954), p. 24. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45673214>

Heroes Of The Empire
At the going down of the sun and in the mornings we will remember them.
SWEET, William Harold. -In loving memory of Harold, died November 17,1941. Always a loving memory and a wish that you were here. '97 Inserted by Elsie.

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1954 Nov 17, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ⁷ Family Notices. (1954, November 17). The Advertiser(Adelaide, SA : 1931 -1954), p. 30. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47617095>

SWEET. William Harold.'97 In loving memory of dad, died No-vember 17, 1941. He died as he lived, a soldier, a man. '97 In-serted by his loving son Klint, daughter-in-law Ronda and grandson Roger.
SWEET. '97 In loving memory of Harold, died November 17. 1941.Not just today, but every day, in silence I remember.'97 Inserted by Elsie.

William married Elsie May Charlton [22055] [9VSL-N38] [MRIN: 9053], daughter of Frederick Charlton [22056] and Annie Richardson [22057], on 1919 Jun 14 in Walkerville, South Australia, Australia.¹ (Elsie May Charlton [22055] [9VSL-N38] was born on 1896 Nov 10 in St Peters, South Australia ¹ and died after 1954 Nov 17.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Newspaper: Family Notices, 1919 Jul 19, Adelaide, , South Australia, Australia. ⁸ Family Notices. (1919, July 19). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 -1954), p. 31. Retrieved November 29, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87484198>

SWEET'97 CHARLTON.'97 On the 14th June, at St. Andrew's Church, Walkerville, by the Rev. W. Hewgill (by special license), Elsie May, only daughter of F. Charlton, Esq., of Pulsford-road, Prospect to William Harold Sweet (Anzac, late A.F.A.).

  Marriage Notes:

St Andrews, Walkerville, Adelaide SA