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Walter Harold SHAW

Regimental number924
Place of birthCollingwood, Victoria
SchoolAlfred Crescent, Victoria
ReligionBaptist
OccupationDriver
Address105 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation21
Next of kinFather, Mr Shawe, 105 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in the Citizen Military Forces
Enlistment date26 February 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name23rd Battalion, B Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/40/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 10 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollLance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll23rd Battalion
FateDied of wounds 3 December 1916
Place of death or woundingFrance
Age at death23
Age at death from cemetery records24
Place of burialHeilly Station Cemetery (Plot VI, Row D, Grave No. 14), Mericourt-L'Abbe, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
100
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Edward and Mary SHAW, 83 Roseberry Street, Auburn, Victoria
Family/military connectionsBrothers, Frederick James SHAW and Charles Percival SHAW . Brother in Law, Basil Percy WATSON (as provided by father)

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