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• WILLIAM EDMOND DENNEY LAMPARD
  
  DATE
  28 September 1911 Born Bellingen NSW
  1 July 1939         Married Olga Grace Waters
  8 December 1939         Birth of Elaine Mary Lampard
  4 June 1940         Enlisted AIF (CMF?) - Engineers as Sapper - Service Number NX28162
  24 September 1940 Transferred to 2/5 Fd. Pk. Coy.
  19 December 1940 Discharged on Compassionate Grounds at own request
  29 October 1941         Commenced Service on RMS Queen Mary
  1 November 1941         RMS Queen Mary departs Sydney
  8 November 1941         RMS Queen Mary departs Fremantle
  15 November 1941 RMS Queen Mary departs Trincomalee        (insufficient service)
  23 November 1941 RMS Queen Mary departs Suez               (for Middle East medal)
  11 December 1941 Premature Birth of Gordon William Lampard Died 12 December 1941 Maitland Hospital
  Buried 13 December 1941 C of E Cemetary Campbell's Hill
  19 December 1941 RMS Queen Mary departs Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) End of W.E.Lampard's Service
  11 April 1942         Enlisted AIF - Service Number NX94874
  17 May 1942         Embarked per "Swartenhondt" for New Guinea
  7 June 1942         Disembarked "Swartenhondt" in Port Moresby
  26 September 1942 Attached to Light Horse Troop
  7 December 1942         Transferred to NGF Pack Transport Company
  14 December 1942 Sick to 2/2 Aust CCS - Tinea
  18 December 1942 Returned from Sick List
  15 January 1943         Classified Heavy Transport Driver TG III
  13 March 1943         Transferred to 1 Australian Pack Transport Company
  17 March 1943         Admitted to 2/2 CCS
  27 March 1943         Discharged 2/2 CCS - Dengue Fever
  31 May 1943         Evacuated 3 Field Ambulance to 2/5 AGH  - Haematemisis (vomiting blood)
  15 June 1943     Discharged 2/5 AGH - Suffered from Malaria BT
  5 July 1943         Relinquish GIII H.T Driver, graded GII Cook
  28 August 1943         Detachment for duty to 2 Aust Air Maintenance Company
  8 December 1943         Embarked "Katoomba" at Bima for Sydney
  21 December 1943 Disembarked "Katoomba" at Sydney for leave
  11 January 1944         Admitted 113 AGH whilst on leave - Malaria BT
  25 January 1944         Discharged 113 AGH to resume leave
  16 February 1944 Granted 30 days leave without pay
  30 March 1944         Attached 1 Aust. Auxiliary Heavy Transport Company
  26 April 1944         Absent without Leave - fined Ð2-0-0
  25 September 1944 Absent without Leave - fined Ð1-0-0
  12 October 1944         Charged with neglect to the prejudice of good order and discipline - fined 10/-
  23 October 1944         Admitted 12 Aust Camp Hospital - injury lacerated left thumb
  30 October 1944         Discharged from hospital to unit.
  4 April 1945         Birth of William Denny Lampard
  15 May 1945         Transferred to 1 Aust Base Depot Personnel
  9 August 1945         Transferred to Lae PWG Company
  23 August 1945         Embarked for Lae per "Bantikae"
  1 September 1945 Disembarked in Lae
  19 January 1946         Court martialled - charged with using insubordinate language to a superior officer - fined Ð5-0-0 -
  spent 18 days in prison awaiting trial.
  6 February 1946         Embarked Westralia for Brisbane - LTD NSW L of C Area for discharge
  10 February 1946 Disembarked Westralia in Brisbane
  1 March 1946         Demobilized
  6 December 1946         Birth of Robert George Lampard
  9 June 1947         Enlisted Aust. Military Forces - NX506254 - Posted to Engineers
  27 November 1947 Discharged from AMF
  28 November 1947 Enlisted Aust. Regular Army at Marrickville NSW - Service No. NP30721 - Private one star. RR&GGD Staff Eastern Command
  12 August 1948         Detached to Tech School for 29 days
  28 March 1949         Birth of Malcolm John Lampard
  About March 1949  Leaves family, commences domestic relationship with Daphne May Malley (Thomason) at Glebe Point Sydney. (Oral evidence only)
  19 September 1949 Daphne Malley in King George Hospital with miscarriage until 8 October 1949.
  Allegedly child of WE Lampard (uncorroborated evidence only)
  27 September 1949 Transferred to LRWER - moved to Woomera
  
  16 November 1950 Classified Cook
  6 February 1951         Transferred to Aust Army Catering Corps (Cook)
  21 February 1951 Classified Private 2 star Cook
  18 March 1951         Birth of Leon Edward Lampard
  2 November 1951         Classified temp Corporal 2 star Cook
  28 June 1952         Lacerations to hand while sawing wood - Woodville SA
  7 February 1952         Birth of Robert Danney Lampard
  30 September 1952 Discharged Regular Army at own request prior to expiration of engagement
  11 May 1955         Birth of Graham Richard Lampard
  9 April 1961         Returned to domestic relationship with Olga bringing three boys.
  22 September 1971 Divorce granted W.E Lampard and O.G.Lampard
  11 January 2007         Died at RSL War Veterans' Home Caboolture Qld.
  
  
  NOTE: Contrary to family stories, on the evidence of his army record W.E Lampard appears to have spent most of his active war service time in New Guinea around Port Moresby in a Transport Company, as a heavy transport driver and a cook. There is no evidence of any direct action against the enemy or of any injuries from any enemy action in his army record.
  
  EULOGY written and read by Elaine Coggins
  
  WILLIAM EDMOND DANNEY LAMPARD
  
  William Lampard (everyone knew him as Bill) was born in the beautiful NSW country town of Bellingen, where his father worked as a Ship's Master on one of the many steamers that travelled on the Bellingen River.
  
  At the outbreak of the Second World War, like so many other young men at the time, Dad joined the Army at the age of 20 years, and did his duty to protect our country.
  
  After the war was over, Dad stayed in the Army for a few years as a cook. He was a good cook, and at home he couldn't make a meal without cooking enough food to "feed an army" - no one went hungry when he was cooking.
  
  After Dad left the Army, he had a variety of jobs. He worked as a Council gardener for a while, then after obtaining his Bronze Medallion in Life Saving he worked as a Lifeguard at the public swimming pool. He suffered health problems as a result of his War service, and retired early.
  
  He fathered nine children altogether - sadly two of them didn't survive for long. He has so many grandchildren it's hard to keep track, as well as many great grandchildren.
  
  Dad lived his life to the fullest - his favourite pastimes were fishing, a game of bowls and his RSL clubs. I spent some years apart from Dad but for the past 15 years he was back in my life, and Mum and I had a lot of great outings and good times with him during those years.
  
  
  TOGETHERNESS
  
  Death is nothing at all - I have only slipped away, into the next room. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let it be spoken without effort. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is past; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before only better, infinitely happier and for ever - we will all be one together with Christ.
  
  And God shall wipe away the tears from their eyes
• William Edmond Lampard

Sources

• 1. Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1954
  • Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll].Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]
• 2. Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1949
  • Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.
• 3. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985
  • Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources.