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Wetherall, W B



Lone Pine Memorial

Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey

 

 

Embarked with 15th Infantry Battalion, C Company, 22 Dec 1914 aboard HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne



Reported Missing in Action 11 May 1915 at Gallipoli

Court of Inquiry held at 4th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarters in Serapeum and determined on 6th April 1916 that Private Wetherell was Killed in Action on the 9th of May 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Dardanelles).

 


Australian Service Record


Havilland Montague Durand

Walter Bert Wetherall
"C" Coy. 15th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
09/05/1915


1914-15 Star

Born at St Peter Port, Guernsey. Son of Charles Walter Wetherell born St Peter Port, Guernsey (Mariner who also served in the Merchant Navy during WW1) and Eliza Sophia Nelly Wetherell née Newman (Mother named as Next of Kin living in Leytonstone, Essex, England)

Killed in Action, aged 28 years

 

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 

Courtesy of Lara Pollard