William Henry Lee - WWI pair

Another search I revisited recently has now been successful following the additional of some family details added to Ancestry.com.

I was first contacted on 11 May 2018 by James F who had come across two WWI medals during the clean up of a deceased estate. This was in Dudley, Newcastle, NSW. The medals were awarded to 7015 William Henry Lee. William's service record is pretty straight forward, except for one document which gives the details of an English lady he married in Bedford, UK, in 1917. This was Mabel May Bettles. After WWI the settled in Newcastle. 

It appears that some time around 1931, William and Mable divorced. He then married Julia in 1935. Julia was also divorced and he several children from his previous marriage.

William died in 1944 and it is his death notice which gave me the first series of clues about his decendants.

 William's grave is rather simple.

After revisiting this search almost 8 years to the day that James originally contacted me, I was able to narrow down the family I was looking for thanks to new information being posted online. William's medals, which look to have had a hard life, will soon be reunited with other medals from his broader family.

The returned medal tally is now 3021.