Walter Leslie SHIPWAY

Walter Leslie SHIPWAY Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

S7818

SHIPWAY, Walter Leslie

Service Numbers:	1603, S80756
Enlisted:	7 September 1915, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	9th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Keilli, Mundoora, South Australia, 8 August 1891
Home Town:	Charra, Ceduna, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, Port Broughton, South Australia, 23 September 1962, aged 71 years
Cemetery:	Keilli Cemetery, South Australia Mundoora, South Australia
Memorials:	Ceduna Denial Bay and Districts WW1 Roll of Honor, Charra Woolshed Hall WW1 Roll of Honour, Mundoora War Memorial

World War 1 Service

7 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1603, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Adelaide, SA
18 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1603, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Adelaide on HMAT Geelong - 12th Reinforcements
19 Apr 1917:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1603, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Gun shot wound right shoulder
26 Aug 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 9th Light Horse Regiment
11 May 1919:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 9th Light Horse Regiment
3 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1603, 9th Light Horse Regiment

World War 2 Service

21 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Private, S80756, Portt Broughton, South Australia
21 Apr 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S80756
1 Oct 1945:	Discharged Private, S80756, 7th Battalion, VDC

Help us honour Walter Leslie Shipway's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography contributed by tony griffin

Walter Shipway was the son of Edgar and Mary (nee Barratt) Shipway of Keilli.

Walter was born at Keilli on 8 August 1891. A labourer, he was 24 years old when he enlisted in Adelaide on 7 September 1915.

Walter was appointed to 12th Reinforcements 9 Light Horse Regiment and embarked from Outer Harbour aboard HMAT A2 “Geelong” on 18 November 1915. On 19 July 1917 9 Light Horse Regiment was engaged in the Second Battle of Gaza at Atawineh on the Gaza to Beersheba Road. In this action Walter received a gunshot wound to his right shoulder. He was evacuated to 14th Australian General Hospital in Cairo. A month later Walter was taken back on strength of the 9th light Horse. Walter embarked from Egypt aboard HT “Oxfordshire” on 10 June 1919 and disembarked at Outer harbour on 10 August. He was discharged on 3 September 1919.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia