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SAUNDERS, Walter Christopher George
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| Service Number: | 234 |
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| Enlisted: | 29 February 1916, Hamilton, Victoria |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Machine Gun Battalion |
| Born: | Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, December 1894 |
| Home Town: | Milltown, Glenelg, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Groom |
| Died: | Natural causes, 1979, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Heywood St. Mary's Mission Church Great War Roll of Honour |
Biography contributed by John Edwards
"...234 Private Walter Christopher (Chris) George Saunders. A native of Warrnambool, Vic, Pte Saunders worked as a groom prior to enlisting on 29 August 1916 with 10th Machine Gun Company and later transferred to 3rd Machine Gun Battalion. Pte Saunders embarked for service overseas aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11) from Melbourne on 27 May 1916, and returned to Australia in June 1919. Pte Saunders is the father of 337678 Lieutenant Reginald (Reg) Walter Saunders, 2/7th Battalion, who in the Second World War was the first Aboriginal serviceman to be commissioned in the Australian Army." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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