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Walter Edmunds

Name on Board W Edmunds
Name on Service
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Walter  Edmunds
Enlistment Age 33
Occupation Furnaceman
Place of Birth Williamstown, Vic
Next of Kin Violet Edmunds
Address 51 Nelson St, Williamstown, Vic
Marital Status M
Enlistment Date 12/07/1915
Service No. 3085
Enlistment Place Melbourne, Vic
Embarkation Place Melbourne
Embarkation Date 26/11/1915
Embarkation Ship HMAT Commonwealth A73
Unit on Embarkation 24th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of Death 18/08/1916
Unit on Death 8th Australian Infantry Battalion
Rank on Death Private
Cause of Death KIA
Place of Wounding/
Death
Pozieres. Initially reported missing (No known grave)
Cemetery or Memorial Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Additional Information Daughters: Myrtle L M and Ethel EM
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