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Walter LAURIE

Regimental number3787
Place of birthBundaberg, Queensland
SchoolState School, Queensland
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationLabourer
AddressCordalba, Isis District, Queensland
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation20
Next of kinMother, Mrs P M Laurie, Cordalba, Queensland
Enlistment date17 August 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name15th Battalion, 12th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/32/2
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A23 Suffolk on 30 November 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll15th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 28 March 1918
Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll)*Spelt Waller Laurie on NR
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death24
Age at death from cemetery records23
Place of burialGommecourt British Cemetery No. 2 (Plot III, Row H, Grave No. 17), Hebeterne, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
76
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: James and P. LAURIE, Cordalba, Queensland
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 4092 Pte Donald Charles LAURIE MM, 31st Bn, returned to Australia, 10 June 1919; 409 Pte William James LAURIE, 42nd Bn, killed in action, 2 August 1917.

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