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WALTER, Leslie John
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 8008 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 18th Australian Army Service Corps |
| Born: | Coghill's Creek, Victoria, Australia, May 1894 |
| Home Town: | Coghills Creek, Ballarat North, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | 1974, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Service History
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 8008, 18th Australian Army Service Corps | |
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| 8 Nov 1915: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 8008, 18th Australian Army Service Corps, Troopship A41 Bakara. | |
| 8 May 1919: | Embarked Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 8008, 18th Australian Army Service Corps, Troopship Devanha | |
| 30 Sep 1919: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2), Driver, 8008, 18th Australian Army Service Corps, Medically Unfit. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Neil Leckie
“Les” Walter was born at Coghill’s Creek, 25 km NNW from Ballarat and was a 21-year-old single Farmer when he enlisted in Ballarat on 17 July 1915 on the same day. He had served two years in C Troop, A Squadron, 19th (Yarrowee) Light Horse, which covered the Clunes area and Ballarat’s 71st Infantry. Les commenced his service on 12 August. Driver Walter was returned to Australia on the troopship Devanha on 8 May 1919, disembarked in Melbourne on 23 June and was discharged from the AIF on 30 September 1919 as Medically Unfit, the disability not being stated.
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