Rank: 
Trooper
Service number: 
3131
Unit: 
9th Light Horse Regiment
Location: 
Deir al Balah, Palestine
Egypt
Khan Yunis, Gaza
Marakeb, Palestine
Date of Death: 
15 June 1917
Enquirer: 
Elsie Margaret Smith
Eyewitness Reports: 
William Sheedy
John Herbert Jones
Packet number: 
3373
Date range: 
1917-1918
SLSA record number: 
SRG 76/1/3373
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Submitted by Joannad on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 12:20

Elsie Margaret Smith, Walter's wife who enquired about him with the bureau, re-married on 2 February 1927. She married Walter Cyril Willsdon at the Presbyterian Chruch, Glencoe West http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article90066089

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