DYE, Walter Stanley
| Service Number: | 3797 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 August 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Heywood, Victoria, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Heywood, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Baker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 25 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Heywood St. John's Anglican Church Great War Honor Roll, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wallacedale WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3797, 5th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 23 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3797, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 23 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3797, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
| 25 Jul 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3797, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Walter Stanley Dye and his brother Valentine Victor Dye lived at Heywood Victoria in 1915. It was a small town about 30 kilometres north of Portland. Valentine was the youngest of 11 children at 18 years of age and his brother Walter was the next oldest at 21.
Their mother passed away suddenly on the 30 July 1915, at 57 years, and the two boys enlisted in the AIF before a month was up. Their father signed a permission note for the two boys to enlist.
Their young lives were ended at Pozieres, a little less than 12 months later, tragically both were killed in action in the same French village, on the same day, 25 July 1916. Although not serving in the same units, they were both blown away by the heavy shellfire, probably within a few hundred yards of each other. Walter was seen to be digging a trench when he was hit by a shell. They have no known graves and their father and siblings would have had to deal with the double tragedy at the same time.
One of their older sisters Lily had also married a Heywood bullock driver, Henry Hayward Aldridge, who had also left home to go and fight. Lily was raising four children under the age of six when she lost her two brothers. Her husband Henry never returned to comfort her; he too was killed in action in France on the 12 April 1918.
The Dye brothers are remembered on the Heywood War Memorial.
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