OSMOND, Walter Charles
| Service Number: | N68048 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 July 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 31 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
| Born: | Surrey, England, 25 October 1896 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Blacksmiths, New South Wales, 28 October 1965, aged 69 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Newcastle Memorial Park (fmly Beresfield Crematorium) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/193605632/walter-osmond |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 25 Jul 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, N68048, 31 Garrison Battalion (NSW) | |
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| 8 Jan 1942: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, 20 Garrison Battalion (NSW) | |
| 20 Oct 1942: | Promoted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 20 Garrison Battalion (NSW) | |
| 7 Oct 1943: | Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, 31 Garrison Battalion (NSW) | |
| 15 Sep 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, N68048, 31 Garrison Battalion (NSW) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Walter Charles Osmond (Service No:N68048) enlisted in the ACMF on 25 July 1941 as a Private attached to 8 Garrison Battalion. He served with 20 and 31 Garrison Battalions and was a Corporal at Discharge on 15 September 1944. Walter had served with the British Expeditionary Forces, East Surrey Regiment (Private; Regimental No:SR/6932) from 21 November 1913 to 10 January 1918.
Born in London in 1896, Walter was the seventh of eight children of William Edward Osmond (b1857 in Surrey, England) and Hannah Mariah Willis (b1860 in Surrey, England). William (a Bricklayer's Labourer) and Hannah (a Domestic Servant) married in 1881 in London, where they settled and William worked as a Railway Labourer and Railway Storeman.
Walter started work as an Errand Boy in 1911, then a Butcher's Assistant in 1913 and following his Discharge in 1918 he worked as a Railway Porter. In 1922 Walter followed his older brother John to Brisbane QLD, arriving on board the Ormond. He initially lived at Enoggera in Brisbane with his brother before moving to Wickham, NSW where in 1928 he married Catherine Stevenson (b1902 at Black Creek in Minmi, NSW). Walter and Catherine settled at Blacksmiths in the Lake Macquarie Region NSW where Walter was a Labourer
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