Participant Info

Given Name

Walter Richard

Family Name

Crofts

Service Number

342

Place of Birth

Sarsfield VIC

Occupation

Labourer

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne VIC

Next of Kin

Father, James Rozynski, 2 Newton Street, Richmond, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

Bruthen, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

Machine Gun Company 15, Reinforcement 4

Age at Embarkation

29

Embarkation Vessel

RMS Orontes, Melbourne VIC on 16 August 1916

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Private

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium

Date of Death

15/10/1917

Fate

KIA

Place of burial/memorial

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Link to record

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