Walter Clarence MUNDAY

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MUNDAY, Walter Clarence

Service Number:	824
Enlisted:	29 December 1914, Signed at Clarement, Tasmania.
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Brighton, Tasmania, 19 November 1891
Home Town:	Brighton, Brighton, Tasmania
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	8 February 1964, aged 72 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania Roman Catholic NDA 143
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World War 1 Service

29 Dec 1914:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Trooper, 824, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Signed at Clarement, Tasmania.
29 Jan 1915:	Involvement Trooper, 824, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: ''
29 Jan 1915:	Embarked Trooper, 824, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Melbourne
25 Sep 1917:	Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), 824, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, Fractured his leg and was in hospital in Cairo for two months.

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Biography contributed by Christopher Hancock

Walter Clarence Munday was born on the 19th of November 1891 in Brighton, Tasmania. His parents were Jonas Edmund Munday and Eliza Helena Wood. He had 12 siblings in total, two of which died before the age of 2. He grew up in Brighton, Tasmania and became a Grocer in Brighton.

At the age of 23 on the 29th of December 1914, Walter enlisted into the Australian Army. He signed at Claremont, Tasmania into the 3rd Light Horse Regiment and was given the service number of 824. He trained with the Australian Army and embarked as a Trooper in the 3rd Light Horse Regiment on the 19th of January 1915. He departed from Mashobra, Melbourne to fight in WW1.

On the 23rd of October 1916 Walter fractured his leg and was transported to Cairo. On the 24th of October it was confirmed as a fracture of the tibia and fibula. He was discharged and sent back to Australia to make a full recovery. He was officially discharged on the 25th of September 1917. He lived in Australia until his death on the 8th February 1961 and he was buried in the Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium in Tasmania.

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