Friends of the Somme - Mid Ulster Branch  
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05/04/2020
21/04/2016 In the event of my death, I give the whole of my property and effects to my father, Patrick McAllister, Gortgole, Portglenone, County Antrim, Ireland. William King, 35127. Private, South Wales Borderers, D Company.
21/04/2016
21/04/2016 Last Will and Testament of Private William King dated 27th May 1916:
21/04/2016 Lance Corporal W King is buried in Fins New British Cemetery, Sorel-Le-Grand in the Somme region. Fins is a village on the road between Cambrai and Peronne.
21/04/2016 Lance Corporal William King was serving with the 12th Battalion of the South Wales Borderers when he was killed in action on Friday 15th June 1917.
21/04/2016 William King enlisted in Clonmel into the South Wales Borderers. The alias may explain the obscurity of the location and the regiment.
21/04/2016 Although there is no direct evidence, it is believed that William McAllister and William King are one and the same.
21/04/2016 The 1911 census lists a William McAllister, aged 26, living with his parents Patrick and Margaret McAllister at house 20 in Gortgole, Lisnagarran, County Antrim.
21/04/2016 The 1901 census lists a William McAllister, aged 18, living with his parents Patrick and Margaret McAllister at house 14 in Gortgoll, Lisnagarran, County Antrim. They were a farming family.
21/04/2016 According William King’s will, his father was Patrick McAllister of Gortgoll, Portglenone, County Antrim, Ireland.
21/04/2016 William was born in Kilrea about 1883.
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