MAUDE, Cornwallis Charles Wyndham
| Service Number: | 557 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 October 1914, Morphettville, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Second Lieutenant |
| Last Unit: | 9th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Enniskillen,County Fermanagh,Northern Ireland, 1 November 1876 |
| Home Town: | Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Electric light wireman |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, 13 August 1915, aged 38 years |
| Cemetery: |
Walkers Ridge Cemetery II B 2 INSCRIPTION - NOT IN VAIN |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Broken Hill War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 29 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 557, 9th Light Horse Regiment, Morphettville, South Australia | |
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| 11 Feb 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 557, 9th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Karroo embarkation_ship_number: A10 public_note: '' | |
| 11 Feb 1915: | Embarked Sergeant, 557, 9th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Karroo, Melbourne | |
| 13 Aug 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 9th Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Kearney
Australian War Memorial has his listed as also known as Wallace MAUDE
Biography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Lt. Gen. Cornwallis Oswald Maude and Emily Maria Christina Goddard, his wife. Of Cheltenham, England.
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
9th, Australian Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force.
He was 39.
He had served with the Worcester Regiment, the Cape
Mounted Rifles and the Frontier Light Horse in
the Boer War in South Africa. he enlisted in the
AIF under the name of Wallace Maude at Morphetville
South Australia. He enlisted in October 1914 and transferred to C squadron 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment and
sailed on the transport ship "Karoo" on 11th feb 1915 for
Egypt. In may 1915 he arrived at Gallipoli and was first promoted to
Sergeant and later Temporary Second Lieutenant.
Throughout his service he went by the forename of Wallace and sometimes he wrote his forename as Wallis.
He is remembered in the town of his birth on the Enniskillen War Memorial.
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