SIMPSON, Walter Leslie
Service Number: | 3273 |
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Enlisted: | 4 August 1915, Adelaide, South Australia |
Last Rank: | Private |
Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Hopetown, Victoria, date not yet discovered |
Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Barman |
Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
4 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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12 Jan 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3273, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
12 Jan 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 3273, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Adelaide | |
Date unknown: | Involvement 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
Wounded in Action
War service: Egypt, Western Front
Allotted to and proceeded to join 32nd Bn, 6 April 1916.
Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 17 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 23 June 1916.
Wounded in action, 20 July 1916 (gun shot wound, right hip), and admitted to 1st Casualty Clearing Station; transferred by Ambulance Train to 14th General Hospital, Wimereux, 21 July 1916; to England, 21 July 1916, and admitted to Colchester General Military Hospital, 22 July 1916; transferred to Singholme Red Cross Hospital (date not recorded); to 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford (date not recorded); discharged from Dartford to No 2 Command Depot, Weymouth.
Married Dorothy May SMITH, spinster, aged 23, St Paul's Anglican Church, Weymouth, 31 January 1918.
Submitted 10 August 2015
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