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TYLER, Walter Allan
| Service Numbers: | 2025, 2025A, 2025B |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Magill, South Australia , 5 June 1894 |
| Home Town: | Adelaide, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Cleaner, SA Railways |
| Died: | Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Parkl, South Australia , 5 December 1974, aged 80 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Enfield Memorial Park, South Australia Cremated |
| Memorials: | Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Burnside Public School Roll of Honour, Tusmore Burnside District Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Sep 1915: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), 9th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 10 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 2025, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 2025, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Warilda, Adelaide | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Wounded Australian Army (Post WW2), 2025A, 9th Light Horse Regiment, send to DIV artillery heliopolis | |
| 8 Apr 1916: | Transferred 9th Light Horse Regiment, was send to battery ferry post | |
| 10 Apr 1916: | Transferred 9th Light Horse Regiment, 10.4.16 transferred to 56 Battery | |
| 5 May 1916: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 9th Light Horse Regiment, transferred to 5th D.A.C. ferry post | |
| 12 May 1916: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), 9th Light Horse Regiment, taken on strength of 5th D.A.C. Mustered gunner ferry post | |
| 24 May 1916: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), 9th Light Horse Regiment, transferred to D.A.B | |
| 24 May 1916: | Transferred Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 9th Light Horse Regiment, transferred to D.A.B D.A.C. Mustered gunner ferry post east | |
| 26 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 26.7.16 pointed Driver | |
| 3 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, 2025B, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 3-11-16 to hospital.sick in field [ 5th D.A.C.D.O. | |
| 17 Dec 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, 9th Light Horse Regiment, 17-12-16 rejoined unit.hospital | |
| 6 Nov 1918: | Transferred 9th Light Horse Regiment, 6.11.18 DIW.HT transfer to 3 Am/x | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Driver, 2025A |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Orroroo Area School
Walter Allan Tyler
9th Light Horse Regiment, 14th Reinforcement
Service Number – 2025B
Walter Allan was born in Conyton [now known as Clayton] in Adelaide in July, 1894. His mother was Susan Tyler. They lived in Adelaide. He wasn’t married before the war.
His height was five feet four inches and hair colour was reddish-brown. It was recorded that he was of the Baptist religion. Before World War 1, Walter Allan was working as a cleaner at the railway station in Adelaide. He was prepared to undergo inoculation against smallpox and enteric fever.
On 8/11/15 Tyler Walter Allan enlisted in Adelaide, South Australia, and sailed on the HMAT Warilda on 10/2/16 to go to World War 1. He was twenty-one years of age. He joined the troops in Alexandria, Egypt.
During his first year of enlistment, he was deployed with the 9th Light Horse and 14th Reinforcement. He was not wounded or killed during his time at war but he was in and out of hospital a few times because of an unknown fever.
Walter Allan's record shows that the 1914/1915 Star has N.E. written underneath - meaning he was not eligible for a medal because he had not served overseas during 1914/1915. He also received a British War Medal and the Victory Medal, which were given to all who served overseas during the Great War.
He left England to return to Australia on the ship named Shropshire in 1/4/19.
BIOGRAPHY
Canberra BC 2610, Australia (2016). Available: https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=307130. Last accessed 13/8/2018.
Australia Government. (2017) Available: https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=8396456&isAv=N. Last accessed 13/8/2018.
RSL Virtual War Memorial record. (2018) Available: https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/explore/people/181030. Last accessed 13/8/2018.
Biography contributed by Rod Baxter Tyler
Walter Allan Tyler - My Grandfather
I believe there is a typographical error in the biography above. Walter Allan Tyler was born in Corryton, not Conyton. The first page mentions he was born in Margill, which makes sense, as Corryton (now Kensington Gardens) is very close to Margill. Conyton, however, is located 274 kilometers to the north.
While it is possible that he could have been born in Conyton, it seems more likely that he was born in Corryton, given that his brother, Harold, who also served, was born in Kensington Gardens (formerly Corryton), South Australia. It’s possible that the original biography was based on a handwritten record, and the term "Corryton" could have been misinterpreted as "Conyton" due to handwriting.
Also his mother was from Knightsbridge which is now called Hazelwood Park.
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