Participant Info

Surname

Mortensen

First Name

Waldemar

Initial

M

Service Number

2657

Rank

private

Unit Served

B Company, 1st Pioneer Battalion, late 8th Reinforcements 7th Battalion

Service Record

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

June 14

Embarkation Year

1915

Embarkation Month

August 26

Date of Death

1916

Month of Death

July 27

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 63, image page 62

Also Known As

Shaw, John Sidney

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Mrs. Olive Marie and the late Peter Mortensen

Parental Address

199 Denison Street, Dulwich Hill

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

born at Marrickville, September 10, 1892, educated under Captain Mason, Sydney, enlisted Melbourne June 14, 1915. War service: Egypt, Gallipoli, France (wounded Pozieres and and died, July 27, 1916.)(His second name was Hendrig and from NSW BDM records, h