BAIN, Walter Ernest
| Service Number: | 135 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 July 1915, An original of A Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 31st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Casino, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Casino, Richmond Valley, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Fromelles, France, 20 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
VC Corner Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France VC Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Casino Irvington Public School Roll of Honor WW1, Casino and District Memorial Hospital WW1 Roll of Honour, Urbenville Memorial Gates, V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery Memorial, Woodenbong and District Roll of Honor WW1 |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 135, 31st Infantry Battalion, An original of A Company | |
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| 9 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 135, 31st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Wandilla embarkation_ship_number: A62 public_note: '' | |
| 9 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 135, 31st Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wandilla, Melbourne | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement 31st Infantry Battalion, Fromelles (Fleurbaix) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Walter Ernest Bain was involved in a pretty serious accident only 9 months before he enlisted. As reported in the Tenterfield Courier 3 September 1914.
A serious accident befell Walter E. Bain, aged 21 years, a timber getter at Old Koreelah. From the information to hand it appears that Bain, on Friday evening, was riding home, and was proceeding down the mountain side, when the bridle rein broke, whereupon his horse bolted. He was unseated and thrown heavily against a tree, and lay on the ground for several hours before being discovered. Dr. Harlin, of Killarney, was summoned, and on examining Bain he found that the left thigh was fractured, there were abrasions on the left hand, and Bain was also suffering from shock. He ordered the man's removal to the Warwick hospital, and the Warwick Ambulance was summoned. As the road from Legume to where Bain was had been so badly cut up by timber teams as to be un-trafficable for ordinary vehicles it was necessary to carry Bain on a stretcher to Legume, a distance of 9 miles, and this was done by 13 men in relays. The party was met at Legume at 12.30 on Saturday by the Ambulance motor, and brought into town, and taken to the general hospital.
Walter Bain was reported wounded in action, 20 July 1916; then reported wounded and missing, 20 July 1916. His Red Cross file indicates he was clearly killed in action on 19 July 1916. His identification disc was received from Germany, no particulars except that soldier is deceased 19 July 1916; and on 24 February 1917 the AIF determined Bain was to be reported as killed in action, 20 July 1916.
His brother, 1106 Tpr. William Harold Bain, 11th Australian Light Horse Regiment was killed in action on 2 May 1918, age 25.
Another brother, 569 Private Andrew Wilson Bain, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion AIF, was returned to Australia 4 June 1919.
They were the sons of William Gibson and Maud Mary Jane Bain of Killarney, Queensland.
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