Participant Info

Surname

Snowdon

First Name

Walter

Initial

S

Service Number

2475

Rank

corporal

Unit Served

5th Company, 56th Battalion

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1916

Enlistment Month

March 21

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

September 30

Date of Death

1917

Month of Death

April 3

Death Category

KIA

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 63, image page 60

Also Known As

Spousal

Mrs. Snowdon

Spousal Address

Meadowbank

Spouse City

Spouse State

NSW

Parental Name

Ambrose and Henrietta Snowdon

Parental Address

Melbourne

Parental City

Parental State

Vic

Notes

"born at Melbourne, August 30, 1880, educated at North Newtown, Sydney, enlisted April 1916, embarked October 1916. War service: France (1917 offensive as stretcher-bearer, was shot by a sniper, April 3, 1917.) He leaves a wife and four children, who resi