Price, Walter

Western FrontAll Campaigns

21 Jan

Written By Renegade Moss

SURNAME

Price

NAME

Walter

PLACE OF BIRTH

Townsville, QLD

OCCUPATION

Carpenter

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

Cairns, QLD

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

29/06/1916

NEXT OF KIN

(sister) Emma Price, c/- Port Douglas Hospital, Port Douglas, QLD

LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE

Next of kin (sister’s) address

REGIMENT 1

Machine Gun

RANK

Private

CAMPAIGN 1

Western Front

OTHER INFORMATION

British War Medal No.25869; Victory No.24872

STORY OUTLINE

Walter Price was granted home leave from 30/09/1916 to 9/10/1916 before embarking for overseas duty from Melbourne on 22/12/1916 onboard HMAT "Persic" A34 to Devonport, England arriving 3/03/1917.

He was sent to Camiers, France, wounded in action in August 1917 and hospitalised in Birmingham, England.

After convalescence, he was returned to his unit in France where he received a gunshot wound to the left arm and was invalided to England.

After demobilisation he was sent back to Australia on 8/09/1919 from London per "Raranga" (was damaged by a torpedo from a German U-boat between New York and London the year before) and arrived on 29 October 1919.

SERVICE NO

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