CASSIN, Walton Frazor
| Service Number: | 1300 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 January 1916, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, 1878 |
| Home Town: | Ora Banda, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Died of gunshot wounds to the head, France, 11 July 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe Plot I, Row T, Grave 19 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Western Australia State War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1300, Place of enlistment - Blackboy Hill, Western Australia | |
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| 20 Feb 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 1300, Mining Corps, Embarked on HMAT 'A38' Ulysses from Sydney on 20th February 1916 disembarking Marseilles, France 5th May 1916, then entrained for Hazebrouck detraining on 8th May 1916. | |
| 5 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, Mining Corps | |
| 28 Oct 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, Mining Corps, Wounded in action in the field, gunshot wound to arm, back and thigh | |
| 18 Dec 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
| 6 Jan 1917: | Honoured Military Medal, For bravery in the field | |
| 23 Mar 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 70th Infantry Battalion | |
| 24 Jun 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) | |
| 11 Jul 1917: | Involvement AIF WW1, Sapper, 1300, 3rd Tunnelling Company (inc. 6th Tunnelling Company) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Elizabeth Allen
Walter Frazor CASSIN was born in 1878 at Barmedman, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
His parents were Robert CASSIN and Christina Miles Frazor MAVOR who married on 8th April, 1875 in the John Knox Presbyterian Church in Melbourne, Victoria
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Les Diggers de la Côte 70
Sapper Walton Frazor Cassin 1300
A soldier, friend of Cassin, wrote to his father to announce the death of his son:
"I saw Cassin brought down to the dessing station badly wounded. He died shortly after. He was hit by a "Whiz-Bang" going into work, in a ordinary daily strafe. He was just alive, when I saw him carry down, and he died shortly after. He was buried after either at Philosophe or Mazingarbe in Loos Sector. The "Whiz-bang" caught him in the Menth Trench on Hill 70. [...] I had slept and worked with Cassin for months. He was one of the best a fine lad. He had the M.M. He got it in Aug.1916 on the Laventie Sector. He was killed in his first or 2nd turn in the line after being 6 months in Blightly having been wounded when getting the M.M."
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