Walter Langley BAXTER

BAXTER, Walter Langley

Service Number: 168
Enlisted: 4 February 1915, Liverpool NSW
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 18th Infantry Battalion
Born: Annandale, NSW, 9 July 1893
Home Town: Annandale, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling: Annandale Superior Public School
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 24 years
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials: Annandale War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William B and Charlotte BAXTER, 304 Young Street, Annandale, NSW

Walter served in Gallipoli and was wounded at Hill 60 and invalided to England, recovered and returned to duty in France where he made the supreme sacrifice on 20 September 1917.

He was a Lodge Member.

BAXTER.—In loving memory of our dear son and our brother, Sergeant Walter Langley Baxter, A Company, 18th Battalion, killed in action September 20, 1917, after 3 years 3  months on active service, son of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, 304 Young-street, Annandale, loved brother of Albert (O.A.S. Abroad), Ben, Percy, Sarah, Hilda, Evelyn. A noble life nobly
given. An Anzac.

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