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William Henry Elms 1895 - 1918

William Henry Elms was born in 1895 in South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC Australia to Lenna Sarah (Carter) Elms and Henry Elms, and had siblings Ivy Elms and Frank Elms. William Elms died at age 22 years old on June 23, 1918 in France, and was buried at Australian National Memorial, Rte de Villers Bretonneux, in Fouilloy, Somme County, Hauts-de-France.

William Henry Elms
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1895
South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC, 3205, Australia
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    1895
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    South Melbourne, Port Phillip City County, VIC 3205, Australia
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    Sergeant - 30th Australian Infantry Battalion
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    June 23, 1918
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    Australian National Memorial, Rte de Villers Bretonneux, in Fouilloy, Somme County, Hauts-de-France 80800, France
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    The Argus. Melbourne. 21st September 1918. ELMS. - Killed in action in France on June 23, 1918, Sergeant William Henry Elms, dearly loved eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Elms, Merton street, Albert Park, dearly loved brother of Ivey and Frank. After 3 years on active service. Aged 21 years 7 months. - His duty nobly done.
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In 1895, in the year that William Henry Elms was born, on March 15th, in County Tipperary, Ireland, Michael Cleary killed his wife of 8 years, Bridget, and burned her body. His defense was that his "wife" was a changeling that was left in his real wife's place when she was abducted by fairies. He was nonetheless convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter. He spent 15 years in prison.
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In 1900, at the age of only 5 years old, William was alive when the German physicist Max Planck formulated an energy theory, postulating the existence of "quanta," which lays the groundwork for the quantum theory of modern physics. In December, he introduced a paper on the Planck postulate which stated that E=hv - the energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency times a constant. Planck won a Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work in theoretical Physics.
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Elms, Florence (Jun 23, 1912 - Dec 21, 2005) Elms, Paul (Jan 4, 1920 - Sep 20, 1997) Elms, Daisy (May 13, 1887 - Mar 1975) Elms, Alice (Jun 11, 1888 - Apr 1967) Elms, Charles (Jan 5, 1922 - Oct 4, 1993) Elms, Grace (Aug 3, 1883 - Jun 1969) Elms, Roger (Apr 11, 1910 - Jun 3, 1994) Elms, Edwina (Dec 13, 1908 - Apr 30, 2001) Elms, Richard (Sep 28, 1917 - Sep 27, 1999) Elms, Laurence (Oct 1, 1912 - Apr 1976)
Elms, Bernice (Jul 16, 1913 - Sep 1985) Elms, Ida (Jan 10, 1891 - Nov 1987) Elms, Walter (Jul 26, 1938 - Jul 11, 2007) Elms, Ada (Apr 28, 1901 - Dec 1982) Elms, Ann (Jul 15, 1918 - Aug 1986) Elms, Renton (May 18, 1920 - Mar 1979) Elms, Evangeline (Aug 8, 1903 - Oct 1985) Elms, David (Apr 10, 1905 - Oct 7, 1991) Elms, Lucille (Aug 23, 1930 - Jan 26, 1999) Elms, Richard (Sep 18, 1907 - Apr 1980)
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