Walter Leslie SIMPSON

SIMPSON, Walter Leslie

Service Number: 3273
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
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World War 1 Service

4 Aug 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Adelaide, South Australia
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.

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