PATTERSON, Walter Charles
| Service Number: | 4572 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 December 1915, Claremont, Tas. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 52nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Snake Plains, Tasmania, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Glendevie, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | State School, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Mouquet Farm, France, 3 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France. |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Geeveston Surges Bay Honor Roll, Port Cygnet Soldiers Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4572, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas. | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 4572, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 4572, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne | |
| 19 Apr 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 52nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Walter Charles Patterson was the second son of Walter and Louisa Patterson of Snake Plains, Tasmania.
He was born there in 1893 and became an engine driver in the Huon forestry area.
He enlisted in the 12th Battalion in December 1915 as a private Number 4572, and arrived at Suez on Warilda in March 1916. In April he was transfered to the 52nd Battalion and left Alexandria for Marseilles on Invernia in June. He was killed at Mouquet Farm in France on September 3-4, 1916. His body was not found but in 1917 a Red Cross worker found that he had been killed.
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL
Pte A Ramshaw (No. 3844) of No. 2 Can. Gen. Hospital reported -
"He was a big lump of a fellow of 23 or 24, dark hair and came from Tasmania. He was in D. Coy. and we were going up a sap leading to our front line in Mouquet Farm and we were being heavily shelled by Fritz all the time. I was only five off him when he was killed outright by a shell which pitched near him. His body was placed on the parapet but I don't know what became of it."
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