BLEAZARD, Walter John
| Service Number: | 988 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 October 1914, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 4th Field Ambulance |
| Born: | West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, 23 September 1895 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Died: | SW face, chest and left forearm, 17th Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium, 28 October 1917, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Plot XX11, Row H, Grave 13A Headstone inscription reads: In memory of Walter dearly beloved son of Mr. & Mrs. Bleazard, |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial, Newcastle Congregational Church |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 988, 4th Field Ambulance, Enlisted at Broadmeadows, Victoria | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 988, 4th Field Ambulance, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Berrima embarkation_ship_number: A35 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Lance Corporal, 988, 4th Field Ambulance, HMAT Berrima, Melbourne | |
| 27 Apr 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 988, 4th Field Ambulance, ANZAC / Gallipoli | |
| 20 Oct 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 988, 4th Field Ambulance, Third Ypres, Shell wounds to the face, chest and left forearm |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of John and Mary Ann Elia Bleazard of 8 Park Street, Hamilton, NSW formerly of 19 Porcher Street, Newcastle, NSW.
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Prior to enlisting he had served a 5 year apprenticeship with Ton & Shearman
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember a Fallen soldier of The Great War (an Original Anzac) memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 28th October 1917, Lance Corporal Walter John Bleazard, 4th Australian Field Ambulance, Reg No-988, painter (Newcastle City Council), from "Arwal", 19 Porcher Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 17th Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium (GSW to the face, chest and left forearm), 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 22.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at West Maitland, New South Wales on the 23rd September 1895 to John (died 19.1.1935, Maitland District Hospital, N.S.W., age 66) of 8 Park Street, Hamilton, New South Wales and "Arwal", 131 Gordon Avenue, Merewether, N.S.W., and Mary Ann Eliza Bleazard nee Lyall (referred to as Eliza, died 9.6.1919, Newcastle, N.S.W. as Bleayard, age 51 of 8 Park Street, Hamilton, New South Wales, Walter enlisted on the 19th October 1914 at Broadmeadows, Victoria.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board Transport A35 Berrima on the 22nd December 1914.
Admitted to hospital 10.6.1915 (tonsilitis), 17.7.1915 (influenza), 22.9.1915 (tonsilitis), 10.2.1917 (bronchitis).
Wounded in action - 20.10.1917.
Report (see link) that a letter of sympathy to be sent to Walter's parents by Newcastle Council. Also mentioned is Corporal Vincent Brown Wilkinson M.M., 34th Battalion (Signaller, Reg No-1434), apprentice electrical engineer (Newcastle City Council), from Dudley Public School, New South Wales, KIA 14th October 1917, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, age 20 years 4 months, awaiting memorialisation at Sandgate Cemetery - CATHOLIC 2-53. 132.
Walter is resting at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot XXII Row H Grave No. 13A.
Many thanks to Eddy Lin for the cemetery and headstone photos.
Place of Association - Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Bleazard’s name has been inscribed on the Gardner Memorial, Newcastle Central Methodist Mission Roll of Honour and the Newcastle Loyal Orange Lodge No.26 Roll of Honor. Name not inscribed on the Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour or The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Bleazard gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their son Walter for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D NW. 64.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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