Walter DE VAUX

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Service Number:	656
Enlisted:	2 February 1915, Enlisted at Egypt - See page 2 of Service Record
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	24th Machine Gun Company
Born:	London, Ontario, Canada, 1885
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Privately educated
Occupation:	Steel Constructor
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 30 August 1954, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Private, 656, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Bakara embarkation_ship_number: A41 public_note: ''
2 Feb 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 656, 6th Light Horse Regiment, Enlisted at Egypt - See page 2 of Service Record
21 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 13th Field Company Engineers, From 6th Light Horse Regiment
11 Apr 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Trooper, 11th Field Artillery Brigade , In France
15 Jul 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 7th Machine Gun Company
3 Dec 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 656, 24th Machine Gun Company, Discharged in London as medically unfit

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Next of kin previously given as his aunt Mrs. Boyd, 9 Albert Drive, Crosshill, Glasgow

Husband of Florence De Vaux of of Chadesley, Worchestershire, England.

Returned to Australia on 26 May 1921 aboard HT Beltana

Medals: 1914-1915 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal