WALSH, Edward
Service Number: | 1812 |
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Enlisted: | 2 October 1914, Brisbane, Queensland |
Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
Last Unit: | 8th Army Service Corps |
Born: | Castlebar, Ireland, June 1892 |
Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Carpenter |
Died: | Died of wounds, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 24 June 1915 |
Cemetery: |
Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE Row B, Grave 24, Ari Burnu Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ireland Castlebar Mayo Peace Park Australian War Memorial, Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial) |
World War 1 Service
2 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1812, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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22 Dec 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1812, 301st Company Mechancial Transport, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
22 Dec 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1812, 301st Company Mechancial Transport, HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne | |
24 Jun 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1812, 8th Army Service Corps, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1812 awm_unit: 8th Australian Army Service Corps Company awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1915-06-24 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
301st (Mechanical Transport), 8th Company, Army Service Corps (17th Divisional Ammunition Park)
He was 23 and the son of John and Hanora Walsh, of Gowrie St., Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
He is one of 16 Australian soldier casualties of the Great War who are honoured on the Mayo Great War Memorial in Mayo Peace Park, Garden of Remembrance, Lannagh Road, Castlebar, County Mayo. He had been born in Castlebar.