KEARNEY, Walter Tasman
| Other Name: | Kearney, Walter Alfred Tasman - Birth registation |
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| Service Number: | 1413 |
| Enlisted: | 2 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | Royal Australian Navy |
| Born: | Portarlington, Victoria, Australia, 1895 |
| Home Town: | Port Fairy, Moyne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Port Fairy School |
| Occupation: | Fisherman |
| Died: | Accidently Drowned, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia, 2 April 1939 |
| Cemetery: |
Port Fairy Public Cemetery, Victoria, Australia Buried 17th April 1939 by Rev. J.P. Blennerhassett, Chruch of England Priest. |
| Memorials: | Port Fairy School Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 2 Aug 1915: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 1413, Royal Australian Navy | |
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| 4 Jan 1918: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, 1413, Royal Australian Navy, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Alfred Edward Percival (Percy) KEARNEY and Alice Maud nee EVANS
Served on HMAS "Protector" 1.9.1915 - 24.2.1916
Served on HMAT "Barambah 6.6.1916 - 21.11.1916
Served on HMAS "Sleuth" 8.1.1917 - 13.12.1917
Discharged as medically unfit 4.1.1918
Walter Alfred Tasman Kearney, son of Alfred Edward Percival Kearney and nephew of Walter Tasman Kearney (538). He was born in Port Fairy, Victoria in 1895. He was a fisherman who joined the navy (ID 1413). He married Olive Annie Sherburn in 1926 and they divorced in 1930, desertion by her. He then married Margaret Graham Cowie Pollock who was born in Victoria in 1897 and died in Port Fairy, Victoria in 1950.
Walter Alfred Tasman Kearney enlisted in the R.A.N. on August 2nd 1915, his hometown being Port Fairy. He was a fisherman who was accidentally drowned while tending his craypots in 1939. His body was found on the Warnambool beach some two weeks later.
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