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PRICE, Walter

Service Numbers:	60, 444
Enlisted:	8 December 1914, 3rd Battalion
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
Born:	Cheltenham Borough, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, 1872
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	House Painter
Died:	Uraemia (kidney failure), Rabaul, New Guinea, 21 March 1915
Cemetery:	Rabaul (Bita Paka) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea (CWGC) Grave Reference, Location ~ Plot AA. Row B. Grave 4.
Memorials:

World War 1 Service

28 Nov 1914:	Involvement Private, 60, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Eastern embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
28 Nov 1914:	Embarked Private, 60, 2nd Infantry Battalion, SS Eastern, Sydney
8 Dec 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 444, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, 3rd Battalion
21 Mar 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 444, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force

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Biography contributed by Peter Rankin

His serial number was changed from 60 to 444.