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PETTIT, Walter Samuel

Service Number:	1347
Enlisted:	23 July 1915, Perth, WA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
Born:	Mingenew, Western Australia, Australia , 1888
Home Town:	Irwin, Irwin, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Horse Breaker
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 5 February 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Mingenew Honour Roll, Mingenew Upper Irwin Roads Board District Roll of Honor WW1, Mingenew War Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Walkaway Irwin and Greenough and Districts Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

23 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1347, 10th Light Horse Regiment, Perth, WA
13 Oct 1915:	Involvement Private, 1347, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: ''
13 Oct 1915:	Embarked Private, 1347, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Themistocles, Fremantle
5 Feb 1917:	Involvement Private, 1347, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1347 awm_unit: 16 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-02-05

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of William PETTIT and his wife MARY STEPHEN, Strawberry, Western Australia