Walter Alexander YOUNG

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YOUNG, Walter Alexander

Service Number:	512
Enlisted:	6 November 1914, Enlisted at Winton, Queensland
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	5th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Rockhampton, Queensland, 1893
Home Town:	Winton, Winton, Queensland
Schooling:	Winton State School, Queensland
Occupation:	Selecetor
Died:	Killed in Action, ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 28 June 1915
Cemetery:	Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot 11, Row K, Grave 4, Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Winton War Memorial

World War 1 Service

6 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 512, Enlisted at Winton, Queensland
21 Dec 1914:	Involvement Private, 512, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
21 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 512, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Persic, Sydney
28 Jun 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 512, 5th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 512 awm_unit: 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-06-28

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

29 November 1919 - Base records wrote a letter to his father that he was buried in a isolated grave on Harris Ridge not far from Chathams Ridge. The letter also stated that the bodies of soldiers buried in isolated graves were to be exhumed and re-interred in the nearset Military Cemetery in the prescence of a Chaplain

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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