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William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917) William Hunter SNADDEN (1867 - 1935) John SNADDEN (1819 - 1893) Andrew SNADDEN (1773 - )
Janet PATERSON (1777 - )
Mary HUNTER (1830 - 1903) Joseph HUNTER (1806 - 1851)
Jean Janet Jane PATTERSON (1803 - 1873)
Alice Maria RICHARDS (1857 - 1930) John RICHARDS (1813 - )



Elizabeth NOYES (1818 - )



William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN

William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN
Pic P1. In Memory of
ALICE MARIA
loved wife of
WILLIAM H SNEDDON
died 20th Dec 1930
aged 66 years
also
WILLIAM HUNTER
beloved husband of ALICE SNEDDON
died 4 Dec 1935
aged 68 years
also
RUBY MAY
beloved infant of above
also
Private
William Leslie Snaddon
Killed in Action Battle of Messines
7th June 1917 aged 27 years

Pic 1. In Memory of
ALICE MARIA
loved wife of
WILLIAM H SNEDDON
died 20th Dec 1930
aged 66 years
also
WILLIAM HUNTER
beloved husband of ALICE SNEDDON
died 4 Dec 1935
aged 68 years
also
RUBY MAY
beloved infant of above
also
Private
William Leslie Snaddon
Killed in Action Battle of Messines
7th June 1917 aged 27 years

b. 1890 at West Maitland, NSW, Australia
d. 07 Jun 1917 at Messines, Belgium aged 27
Near Relatives of William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather John SNADDEN 15 Apr 1819 Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 18 Jan 1893 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73
Grandmother Mary HUNTER abt 1830 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 06 Jun 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73
Grandfather John RICHARDS 1813 Marylebone, London, England
Grandmother Elizabeth NOYES 1818 Newbury, Berkshire, England

Father William Hunter SNADDEN 1867 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 04 Dec 1935 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 68
Mother Alice Maria RICHARDS 1857 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 20 Dec 1930 Minmi , Newcastle, NSW, Australia 73

Self William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN 1890 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 07 Jun 1917 Messines, Belgium 27

Brother John Adrian Rudolph (Ade) SNADDEN 1888 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1950 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 62
Brother Lyall Joseph B SNADDEN 1891 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1961 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 70
Brother Thomas Herbert (Bert) E SNADDEN 1893 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 13 Jun 1967 Wyong, NSW, Australia 74
Sister Ivy Pearl SNADDEN 1895 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1977 82
Sister Ruby May SNADDEN 1896 West Maitland, NSW, Australia 1896 Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 0
Brother Francis Maitland SNADDEN 1899 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1976 77

Uncle Andrew A SNADDEN 1842 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1878 Lambton, NSW, Australia 36
Uncle John SNADDEN 1845 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1859 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 14
Aunt Isabella SNADDEN abt 1850 Sauchie, Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland bef 1855 5
Aunt Jane SNADDEN 29 May 1854 Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 1917 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 63
Uncle Frank (SHEERS) SHEARS abt 1846 15 Mar 1911 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 65
Aunt Janet Patterson SNADDEN 1856 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1895 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 39
Uncle Peter BLAIR
Aunt Mary C SNADDEN 1858 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1860 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Uncle Joseph Hunter SNADDEN 1863 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1938 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 75
Aunt Jane KIRKWOOD? 1923 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia
Uncle Robert Hunter SNADDEN 1865 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1954 Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia 89
Aunt Sarah Mary Josephine SCULLY 1865 Co Tipperary, Ireland 28 May 1919 Marickville, Sydney, NSW, Australia 54
Aunt Mary Jane MCCOLL
Uncle John SNADDEN 05 Jan 1865 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle James SNADDEN 1871 Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Uncle Thomas SNADDEN 1871 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1960 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 89
Aunt Julia Elizabeth PAUL 1864 Penrith, NSW, Australia 1958 Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 94

Cousin George SHEARS 1874 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1876 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Francis George John SHEARS 1876 Maitland, NSW, Australia 1878 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Mary Eliza SHEARS 1878 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1963 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 85
Cousin Thomas Frederick SHEARS 1880 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 09 Apr 1918 Villers Bretonneux, France 38
Cousin Janet SHEARS 1882 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 15 Apr 1972 Minmi Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 90
Cousin Joseph Hunter SHEARS 1884 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1960 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 76
Cousin William Sneddon SHEARS 1887 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1947 Cessnock, NSW, Australia 60
Cousin Sarah A SHEARS 1890 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Thomas S SHEARS 1891 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1892 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1
Cousin Harry (Henry) SHEARS 1894 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 09 Jun 1917 Messines, Belgium 23
Cousin Claude BLAIR 1886 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1904 Cobar, NSW, Australia 18
Cousin Janet E BLAIR 1888 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1890 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Peter J BLAIR 1889 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Ethel A P BLAIR 1892 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin Veda SNADDEN 1899 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1958 Kurri Kurri, NSW, Australia 59
Cousin Joseph V SNADDEN 1901 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 2
Cousin Nicoll KIRKWOOD
Cousin Robert SNADDEN 1886 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1954 68
Cousin Johanna Sarah SNADDEN 1888 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Cousin Thomas S SNADDEN 1891 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1896 Hunters Hill, NSW, Australia 5
Cousin Sarah Millicent SNADDEN 1894 Hurstville, NSW, Australia
Cousin Mary Elizabeth SNADDEN 14 Jan 1898 Hurstville, NSW, Australia 29 Oct 1985 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia 87
Cousin Elizabeth Taylor SNADDEN 1895 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 1957 Newcastle, NSW, Australia 62
Cousin Mary H SNADDEN 1898 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Cousin John (Jack) SNADDEN 1900 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 28 May 1903 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 3

Niece Doris SNADDEN
Niece Mavis SNADDEN
Nephew William SNADDEN
Nephew Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew Living or Recently Deceased
Niece Living or Recently Deceased
Niece Living or Recently Deceased
Niece Living or Recently Deceased
Nephew Thomas Leslie SNADDEN abt 1916 29 Jun 1987 Minmi , Newcastle, NSW, Australia 71
Nephew William John SNADDEN abt 1916 1951 Paterson, NSW, Australia 35

Sister in Law Lucy May COWMEADOW
Sister in Law Gladys PRICE
Sister in Law Janet Sophia BURGESS abt 1897 Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 22 Jul 1963 Wallsend, Newcastle, NSW, Australia 66
Brother in Law George PRITCHARD
Sister in Law Delcie E NEWTON
Events in William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN (1890 - 1917)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1890 William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN was born West Maitland, NSW, Australia Reg No. 20529/1890 17
1916 26 Military Service Minmi, Newcastle, NSW, Australia Note 1 64
07 Jun 1917 27 William Leslie Hunter SNADDEN died Messines, Belgium Note 2 60
Note 1: Leslie SNEDDON

Regimental number 896
Date of birth 29 January 1896
Place of birth West Maitlland, New south Wales
Other Names William Leslie Hunter
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Miner
Address Minmi, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, William Sneddon, Minmi, New South Wales
Enlistment date 10 January 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 34th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/51/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 2 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 34th Battalion
Date of death 7 June 1917
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 124
Note 2: Minmi cem - 896 Pte 34 Bn kia, battle of Messines, France. Son/William & Alice Maria

see also
http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=282706

Sydney Morning Herald 21 July 1917
SNEDDON.-Killed in action, France, June 7, 1917, Private William Leslie Hunter (Leslie) Sneddon, aged 27 years, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneddon, and brother of Adrian, Lyall, Bert, Ivy, and Frank Sneddon, Church-street, Minmi
Source References:
17. Type: Vital Record, Abbr: NSW bdm register, Title: NSW bdm register
- Reference = (Birth)
- Notes: Reg No. 20529/1890
60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: Sydney Morning Herald 21 July 1917
SNEDDON.-Killed in action, France, June 7, 1917, Private William Leslie Hunter (Leslie) Sneddon, aged 27 years, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sneddon, and brother of Adrian, Lyall, Bert, Ivy, and Frank Sneddon, Church-street, Minmi
64. Type: Web Page, Abbr: AIF Project, Title: AIF Project, Auth: Australian Defence Forces http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au
- Reference = (Military Service)
- Notes: Leslie SNEDDON

Regimental number 896
Date of birth 29 January 1896
Place of birth West Maitlland, New south Wales
Other Names William Leslie Hunter
School Minmi Public School, New South Wales
Religion Presbyterian
Occupation Miner
Address Minmi, New South Wales
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 26
Next of kin Father, William Sneddon, Minmi, New South Wales
Enlistment date 10 January 1916
Rank on enlistment Private
Unit name 34th Battalion, C Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number 23/51/1
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A20 Hororata on 2 May 1916
Rank from Nominal Roll Private
Unit from Nominal Roll 34th Battalion
Date of death 7 June 1917
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium

The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.

The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.

The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.

Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 124