Walter Thomas WATT

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WATT, Walter Thomas

Service Number:	395
Enlisted:	9 January 1915, Liverpool, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	7th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia, 14 March 1889
Home Town:	Gulgong, Mid-Western Regional, New South Wales
Schooling:	Gulgong Public School, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 30 September 1915, aged 26 years
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula I. G. 7.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ayr War Memorial, Gulgong District Soliders Memorial, Gulgong Public School Honour Roll, Gulgong RSL "Watt Brothers" Pictorial Memorial, Gulgong Stubbo Roll of Honour, Gulgong and Mudgee District Roll of Honor, Gulgong and Mudgee District Roll of Honor, Tambar Springs War Memorial

World War 1 Service

9 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 395, Liverpool, New South Wales
13 Jun 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 395, 12th Light Horse Regiment, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: ''
13 Jun 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 395, 12th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney
30 Sep 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Trooper, 395, 7th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli

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Biography contributed by John Edwards

Son of Espie and Jane WATT of Main Street, Gulgong, NSW

Embarkation Roll (www.awm.gov.au) has incorrectly recorded second Christian name as NORMAN instead of THOMAS

"Three Sons Lost. MRS. E. WATT'S LOSS.

Mrs. E. Watt, of Mayne-street, Gulgong, has received official advice that her son, Private Frederick John Watt, was killed in action in France in May of last year. The fallen soldier was previously reported missing. The Watt family has made almost as great a sacrifice as any family in the State. Three sons enlisted to take part in the Empire's battles, and to-day all of them are sleeping the eternal sleep underneath the sod of foreign lands. Walter Thomas Watt gave up his life for his country on Gallipoli, and Archibald Watt died on boardship the night after the evacuation. The record is a wonderful one. Though the mother has suffered an irreparable loss, she is consoled by the thought that her boys have died brave men, giving their lives to the greatest cause in the world." – from the Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative 31 Jan 1918 (nla.gov.au)

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