MURRAY, Walter Leslie
| Service Number: | 2629 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Booral, New South Wales, September 1893 |
| Home Town: | Adamstown, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram conductor |
| Died: | Newcastle, NSW, 28 October 1929, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW CATHOLIC 1-24. 100. |
| Memorials: | Hamilton Newcastle District Tramways Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 6 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2629, 35th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 2629, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 2629, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Sydney | |
| 2 Nov 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 2629, 35th Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
On this Anzac Day, the 25th April 2020, we are unable to gather at the Adamstown Citizens' Memorial to pay our respects, so let us remember 2 Adamstown boys who enlisted in The Great War, returned home, and are now resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
Private Walter Leslie Murray, 35th Battalion, tram conductor from Victoria Street, Adamstown, New South Wales and Emerald Street, Newtown, N.S.W. (earlier name for Hamilton North, also known as "Islington South"), was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery on the Monday afternoon of the 28th October 1929, age 36. CATHOLIC 1-24. 100.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137807768
Born at Booral, New South Wales on the 30th August 1893 to John and Mary Ann Murray of Booral, N.S.W.; husband of Stella B Murray nee Desmond (married 1925, Hamilton, N.S.W., died?), Walter enlisted June 1916 at Adamstown, N.S.W. (1 of 11 to enlist from here).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133886683
Admitted to hospital - 9.8.1917 (urethral stricture), then wounded in action - 13.10.1917 (shell shock - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138739880), Walter was invalided home 7th July 1918 (gastric neurosis or shell shock). Discharged 2nd November 1918.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140975391
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