Walter Renton MONTGOMERY

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MONTGOMERY, Walter Renton

Service Number:	6885
Enlisted:	25 October 1916
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)
Born:	Ringarooma, Tasmania, Australia, 29 April 1892
Home Town:	Branxholm, Dorset, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, 31 March 1972, aged 79 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Carr Villa Memorial Park, Tasmania
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World War 1 Service

25 Oct 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 6885, 1st Anzac Entrenching Battalion
17 Jan 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 6885, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: RMS Omrah embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
17 Jan 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 6885, Tunnelling Companies, RMS Omrah, Melbourne
6 May 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)
24 Mar 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 6885, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), Gassed - France
4 Aug 1919:	Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 6885, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company), per Swak0pmund
19 Sep 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 6885, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Walter was the fourth of seven children of Robert Bertram Eglington Montogmery (born 1852 in Northumberland, England) and second wife Mary Davis (born 1854 in Gloucestershire, England). William, an Ironworks Labourer and Excavator, and Mary were in Ringarooma, Tasmania when their marriage was registerd in 1918.

Walter was a Labourer at Ringarooma, Tasmania in October 1916 when he enlisted with the AIF as a Sapper (Service No:6885), and served with Miners' Reinforcements, 1st Anzac Entrenchment Battalion and 3rd Tunnelling Coy. He was WiA in France in 1918 (Gassed) and was Discharged in September 1919. Brothers Wallace (Service No:1162), Arthur (Service No:355) and Alexander (Alex, Service No:2482) also served in WWI.

Walter returned to Tasmania and worked as a Labourer in Speryton and Branxholm, and in 1922 married Emily Winifred Sainty (born 1899 at Ringarooma, Tasmania). Walter worked as a Labourer at Ringarooma and served with the ACMF as a Private (Service No:T31085) with 30 Garrison Battalion from 1942 to 1943. Walter and Emily relocated to Launceston where Walter worked as a Wood Contractor and Labourer. Walter died in 1979 and Emily in 1984.

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