SANDERS, Walter Robert
| Service Number: | 34819 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia., 23 October 1891 |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | boilermaker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 10 November 1917, aged 26 years |
| Cemetery: |
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
| 21 Jun 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 34819, Field Artillery Brigades, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
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| 21 Jun 1917: | Embarked Gunner, 34819, Field Artillery Brigades, HMAT Suevic, Melbourne | |
| 7 Nov 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 4th Australian Field Artillery Battery, Transferred from 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column. | |
| 10 Nov 1917: | Involvement Gunner, 34819, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 34819 awm_unit: 4th Australian Field Artillery Brigade awm_rank: Gunner awm_died_date: 1917-11-10 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Oakes
Walter Robert SANDERS (Service Number 34819) was born in Parramatta on 23rd October 1891. He joined the NSW Government Railways as an apprentice boilermaker at Eveleigh workshops in September 1908. In September 1913 his apprenticeship expired, and he continued as a tradesman boilermaker on a temporary basis. In April 1914 he was made permanent. In November 1916 he enlisted in the AIF in Sydney.
He was allotted to reinforcements for the Field Artillery. He was embarked from Melbourne in June 1917 and landed in England in August. He was sent to France in October and ‘taken on strength’ by the 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column. Two weeks later, on 7th November, he was transferred to the 4th Field Artillery Brigade and ‘taken on strength’ by the 11th Battery.
On 10th November 1917, just three days later, he was killed in action. Witnesses told the Red Cross later that he met his death by shellfire at Westhoek Ridge. He was buried in the Belgian Battery Corner Military Cemetery, 1-mile SW of Ypres.
A war pension was granted to his widowed mother; with whom he was living in Erskineville before his enlistment.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board.