Walter O'CONNOR

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Service Number:	427
Enlisted:	7 September 1916, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Driver
Last Unit:	4th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Wellington, New Zealand, 1881
Home Town:	North Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Stockman
Memorials:

7 Sep 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 427, 15th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
20 Oct 1916:	Involvement Private, 427, 15th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
20 Oct 1916:	Embarked Private, 427, 15th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
13 Feb 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Driver, 4th Machine Gun Company
28 Aug 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 427, 4th Machine Gun Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District as medically unfit due to rheumatism

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Next of kin given as his step-brother Stanley Kelly of Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria.

Commenced return to Australia on 23 May 1917 aboard HT Ayrshire disembarking on 17 July 1917

Medal: British War Medal