Walter HUNDLEY

HUNDLEY, Walter

    Service Number: 152
    Enlisted: 17 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
    Last Rank: Lance Sergeant
    Last Unit: 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
    Born: 1888, place not yet discovered
    Home Town: Donnybrook, Donnybrook-Balingup, Western Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Sleeper Hewer
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 28 April 1915
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    No known grave Panel 51, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Donnybrook Preston Road Board, Donnybrook War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing
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    World War 1 Service

    17 Sep 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 152, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA
    1 Oct 1914: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Prior to embarking
    19 Nov 1914: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Sergeant, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Prior to embarking
    22 Dec 1914: Involvement 152, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
    22 Dec 1914: Embarked 152, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne
    28 Apr 1915: Involvement 152, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 152 awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Sergeant awm_died_date: 1915-04-28

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    There are conflicting places of birth. The Attestation paper states Donnybrook, WA but the Roll of Honour Circular states Loughton, England and that he arrived in Australia aged 22 years

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

    Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

    He was 26 and the son of Francis Philip and Eliza Anna Charlotte Hundley, of Loughton, Essex.

    He is commemorated on the Loughton War Memorial.

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