WEEDON, Walter
| Service Number: | 4914 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 December 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Claremont, Western Australia, Australia, 1893 |
| Home Town: | Claremont, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Claremont State School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Teamster |
| Died: | Killed in action, Mouquet Farm, France, 3 September 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Dec 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4914, 11th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 1 Apr 1916: | Involvement Private, 4914, 11th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Apr 1916: | Embarked Private, 4914, 11th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Fremantle | |
| 3 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 4914, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4914 awm_unit: 51 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-09-03 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Walter was the son of Samuel and Emily Weedon of Claremont, Western Australia and the first and youngest of their three sons who died on active service. The Weedon brothers had lost their father during 1911 and their widowed mother bore the brunt of their loss.
Wally Weedon was one of hundreds of men who went ‘missing’ on 3 September 1916 during the battle for Mouquet Farm. As the Australian attacks on the fortification failed many of the fallen men had to be left in the shell ravaged ruins of the old German trenches.
His older brother, 3253 Pte. Harry Weedon 51st Battalion was killed in action in Belgium during 1917, aged 32. Another brother, 3623 Trooper George Frederick Weedon, 15th Australian Light Horse Regiment, died of pneumonia in Lebanon on 1 November 1918.
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