Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial, Toowoomba Grammar School Roll of Honour and St Luke’s Anglican Church Toowoomba Honour Board.
Brother of 590 Private Charles Roy Bauer.
William Bauer arrived in France in May 1917. In Belgium on 20 September he was severely wounded in his chest and right thigh by artillery fire at Ypres. He died of his wounds at the 3rd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station the same day. He was just 21.