Walwin Harold WILKE

Walwin Harold WILKE Update Details

If you confirm that you want to proceed with the update, this record will be locked for editing by all other users until you have finished. You will have 7 days to complete your changes before they will be automatically submitted.

Do you want to proceed?

S2107

WILKE, Walwin Harold

Service Numbers:	380, 99, 4
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	3rd Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Glenelg, South Australia, 30 September 1881
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Civil Servant
Died:	Circumstances of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Corporal, 380, 5th South Australian Imperial Bushmen
1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 99, 1st South Australian Mounted Rifles

World War 1 Service

22 Oct 1914:	Involvement 4, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
22 Oct 1914:	Embarked 4, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Port Lincoln, Adelaide
11 Nov 1918:	Involvement Sergeant, 4

Help us honour Walwin Harold Wilke's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.

Biography

Previously served as a Bugler with A Company Port Adelaide volunteers.

Invalided to Australia arrived 10 August 1900.

Also served as Corporal with 5th Contingent.

Enlisted AIF August 1914, original member 3rd Light Horse Regiment, promoted Staff Sergeant, Suffered gunshot wound to chest in May 1915 at Gallipoli, invalided to London, returned to Australia and discharged 1916.

Virtual
War Memorial
Australia