TILBEE, Walter Joseph
| Service Number: | 983 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Canterbury, England, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Midland, Swan, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 35, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Midland Church of The Ascension Honour Roll, Midland WW1 Clock Tower & Town Hall Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 983, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 983, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 983, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Fredrick and Catherine Alice TILBEE, Harper Street, Midland Junction, Western Australia
There are few families in Western Australia who have seen their duty and done it in the present crisis to the same extent as that of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tilbee, of Harper street, Midland Junction. And few indeed there are who have suffered so terribly. Four sons have volunteered for service in the Army and Navy, and of these the three who were in the land forces are either killed or missing. One—Walter—was at the historic landing on Gallipoli, where, with so many brave comrades, he was posted as 'missing.'. The news that Charlie, the eldest of the three soldiers (though he was only 23) had been killed in action in France came to the parents in August, and even at the time that sad intelligence was being conveyed to them the third son, George, was also lying dead 'somewhere in France.' When, in due course, that also was announced to the stricken parents, it seemed almost unbelievable that sorrow should be so heaped on sorrow. The fourth son, Elmer, is in the Navy.
And families that have sent none of their members to defend the privileges we enjoy prate of "equality of sacrifice !" What a hollow mockery it is.
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