Walter O'HARE

O'HARE, Walter

    Service Number: 3650
    Enlisted: 20 September 1915, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 10th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Port Pirie, South Australia, 1897
    Home Town: Adelaide, South Australia
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Farmer
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    World War 1 Service

    20 Sep 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3650, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide, SA
    12 Jan 1916: Involvement Private, 3650, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
    12 Jan 1916: Embarked Private, 3650, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Borda, Adelaide
    28 Feb 1916: Transferred AIF WW1, Captain, 10th Infantry Battalion, From 27th Battalion
    12 Dec 1917: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 3650, 10th Infantry Battalion, Had been illegally absent from 12 February 1917. Later it was learnt that he had enlisted under and assumed name of Daniel O'Hara

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of Florence M. Williams formernly O'Hare of Meyers Street, Adelaide, SA

    Having desertered the AIF it was learnt that he had frauduantley enlisted with the Imperial Army's Leinster Regiment as Daniel O'Hara number 4250 and was invalided due to multiple wound to the legs. In March 1918 he had lodged a request to return to Australia

    Not eligible for medals 

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