Participant Info

Given Name

Walter Edward

Family Name

De Forest

Service Number

3380

Place of Birth

Echuca VIC

Occupation

Farmer

Place of Enlistment

Sale VIC

Next of Kin

Father, Samuel Shannon, Mitchell Street, Bairnsdale, Victoria

Address on Enlistment

Combienbar, East Gippsland

Unit on Embarkation

58th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement

Age at Embarkation

34

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A16 Port Melbourne, Sydney NSW on 16 July 1917

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Private

Date of Return

17/03/1919

Place of death or wounding

Date of Death

Fate

RTA

Place of burial/memorial

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Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3497388