Flemington-Kensington Church News, December 1919

19707 - Spr. C. P. Williams, 3rd Div Sig. Coy., left Australia on 8/8/17, and sailed by  the Panama Canal route, this being the first vessel carrying  troops to go by that route  From Port Ancon (the port of Panama) to Cristobal is 48 miles of sustained wonder at the engineering skill of  the construction of the canal, and at the tropical luxuriance of the vegetation.  

The transport called at Halifax, in Canada, situated on one of the finest harbours in the world.  Later a great part of the city was destroyed by the explosion of a war munition ship in the  harbour.  On arrival in England he was sent to the Parkhouse camp in Salisbury Plains, and then to the Signal Depot at Shefford, near Bedford.

He left for France on 3/1/18, and had some part in the ups and downs of that eventful year. Owing to influenza a couple of days before the armistice was signed he lost some share in the general rejoicing. He arrived back in England in December, and had leave to Glasgow where the people made it "like a second home."

After three mouths in Weymouth he left England per the "Leicester," in May, and had a good trip via the Suez Canal. He obtained leave at Colombo, Freemantle and Adelaide, arriving in Melbourne 21/6/19, right glad to be home.

Williams, Cyril Price, Sapper. born 12 Nov 1898.

Enlisted in May 1917.  He was a signaller with the AIF in France; at Flanders, on the Somme, at Warneton, Hamel Wood, Villers Bretonneux, and in the last advance with the Hindenburg Line.