Walter Harding PACK

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PACK, Walter Harding

Service Number:	465
Enlisted:	1 July 1916, Brisbane, Queensland
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	11th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Aldershot, England, December 1898
Home Town:	Milton, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Porter
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

1 Jul 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 465, Brisbane, Queensland
6 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 465, 11th Machine Gun Company, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: ''
6 Dec 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 465, 11th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 465, 11th Machine Gun Company, Broodseinde Ridge

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Biography contributed by Paul Trevor

"PACK, Walter Harding. Private, No. 465, 6th Rfts., 11th M.G.C. Born and educated at Cambridge, England. The son of Alfred Pack, of Bayswater Terrace, Townsville. Enlisted in June, 1916, at Brisbane, and left Australia for England on the 6th December 1916, by the "Orsova," and went into camp at Grantham, England. Trained there six weeks and was then drafted to France on the 6th May, and was killed in action close to Zonnebeke on the 4th October, 1917." - from Queenslanders Who Fought in the Great War. (nla.gov.au)

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