OLIVER, Walter
| Service Number: | 19332 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Battery Quartermaster Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column |
| Born: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, August 1891 |
| Home Town: | Jolimont, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Clerk |
| Died: | Tubercular disease of lungs, Fovant Military Hospital, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, 24 January 1920 |
| Cemetery: |
Fovant (St. George) Churchyard, Wiltshire - South West, England Plot I, Row E, Grave No. 5 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, 19332, 7th Field Artillery Brigade | |
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| 11 May 1916: | Involvement 19332, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 11 May 1916: | Embarked 19332, 7th Field Artillery Brigade, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 24 Nov 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column | |
| 24 Jan 1920: | Involvement 19332, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 19332 awm_unit: 3rd Australian Divisional Ammunition Column awm_rank: Battery Quartermaster Sergeant awm_died_date: 1920-01-24 |
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Died on this date - 24th January........Walter Oliver was born at Springvale, Melbourne, Victoria in 1891. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 10th August, 1915 as a 24 year old Clerk from Jolimont, Melbourne, Victoria.
Walter Oliver was posted as Acting Quartermaster Sergeant while in camp in Sydney, NSW. He was appointed provisionally as Battery Quartermaster Sergeant on 12th April, 1916 & embarked from Sydney on 11th May, 1916 & disembarking at Plymouth, England on 10th July, 1916.
(Prov.) Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Walter Oliver proceeded overseas to France on 24th November, 1916. He was on leave to Paris in October 1917 & to England in October 1918.
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Walter Oliver was marched out for return to Australia – Quota 39 & left France for England on 28th April, 1919. He was released temporarily from A.I.F. on 2nd June, 1919 for non Military Employment in UK.
While waiting for transport back to Australia Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Walter Oliver was admitted to 1st Australian General Hospital at Sutton Veny, Wiltshire on 24th October, 1919 with Asthma. He was transferred to Military Hospital at Fovant, Wiltshire from Sutton Veny on 20th November, 1919 seriously ill with Chronic Bronchitis.
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant Walter Oliver died at 11.30 am on 24th January, 1920 at Fovant Military Hospital, Wiltshire from Tubercular disease of lungs. He was buried in St George’s Churchyard, Fovant, Wiltshire where 43 other WW1 Australian Soldiers are buried.
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