Walsh, Cecil (11988)

Place of Birth: Box Hill, VIC

Age: 18 years 1 month

Enlistment Details: Saturday, 7 August 1915 – Melbourne, VIC

Service Number: 11988            view online service record

Address:
289 Ross Street
Port Melbourne, VIC

Next of Kin:
Cornelius Walsh (father)
289 Ross Street
Port Melbourne, VIC

Embarkation Details:
Date: Friday, 28 January 1916
Ship: HMAT Themistocles A32
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 1st Divisional Ammunition Column – 14th Reinforcements

Fate:
KIA: Sunday, 29 September 1918
Place: France

Gunner, 5 Medium Trench Mortar Battery, killed in action 29 September, 1918, France, age 18, commemorated Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile, France.

Parents: Cornelius and Letitia WALSH, born Box Hill, educated Graham Street SS. 279 Ross Street. He claimed to be 18 when he enlisted as a railway cleaner in August, 1915, but the circular returned by his mother suggested he was just 15 years and nine months. She returned the circular from Ross Street, a Mr Tucker, JP listed as a further reference at the same address. He is also shown as having been rejected in 1915 under the name Cornelius Cecil WALSH, perhaps his true age discovered on this earlier attempt to enlist.

Additional research by Brian Membrey