Walter Hainsworth PRETTY

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PRETTY, Walter Hainsworth

Service Number:	1556
Enlisted:	15 July 1915, Keswick, South Australia
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	32nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Kilkenny, South Australia, Australia, 27 December 1896
Home Town:	Kilkenny, Charles Sturt, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 20 July 1916, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery Plot I. Row C. Grave 6. Inscription: DEARLY LOVED SON OF ALBERT AND CATHERINE BROTHER OF TEN SIBLINGS WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Croydon War Memorial, Woodville Kilkenny Church of St. Edward Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

15 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1556, Depot Battalion , Keswick, South Australia
18 Nov 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
18 Nov 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
18 Dec 1915:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Suez, Egypt
17 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Embarked Alexandria for B.E.F per H.M.T. "Transylvania"
23 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Disembarked Marseilles, France
19 Jul 1916:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Wounded In Action -- Severe Head Wound, Shattered Jaw -- 20:00hrs German Trenches
19 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix)
20 Jul 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1556, 32nd Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix), Killed In Action

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Biography

"THE LATE PRIVATE W. H. PRETTY.

Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pretty, of Kupman street, Kilkenny, have been officially informed that their son, Private W. H. Pretty, was killed in action, in France, on July 20, 1916. He was previously reported missing." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 07 Apr 1917 (nla.gov.au)

"FOUND AFTER 94 YEARS"

The new Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) cemetery was opened in 2010 to house the remains of all the soldiers discovered from the mass grave at Pheasant Wood in which British and Allied soldiers killed in the attack at Fromelles were interred originally by the Germans. Private Walter Pretty was one of the first of the 96 soldiers identified and re-interred in the new cemetery in 2010.

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