Walter Ernest PITT

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PITT, Walter Ernest

Service Number:	4573
Enlisted:	14 October 1915, Claremont, Tas
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	52nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Franklin, Tas., September 1876
Home Town:	Franklin, Huon Valley, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 June 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Loyal Franklin Lodge No 4611 Pictorial HR, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

14 Oct 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4573, 12th Infantry Battalion, Claremont, Tas
8 Feb 1916:	Involvement Private, 4573, 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, 4573, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne
8 Jun 1917:	Involvement Private, 4573, 52nd Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4573 awm_unit: 52nd Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-06-08

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William and Sarah PITT, Franklin, Tasmania

Mrs. S. J. Pitt and family desire to express their sincerest thanks to their many kind friends and relations for letters and cards and expressions of sympathy, also the Huon Municipal Council and the Loyal Franklin Lodge, and especially to thank the Rev. Cutts for his kindness and sympathy in their recent sad bereavement of the death of their son and brother, Private Walter Ernest Pitt, who was killed in action somewhere in France on the 8th of June, 1917.

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