Walter MCGREGOR

Walter Mcgregor Photo:
Janelle Coonan
Birthplace
Yalangur
Resided
Toowoomba
Occupation
Farmer
Enlisted
27-April-1917
Place
Toowoomba
Age
24
Status
Single
Service No
3708
Rank
Private
Unit
47th Battalion, 10th Reinforcements
Embarked
02-August-1917
Place
Sydney
Active Service
Western Front
Highest rank
N/A
Honours and Awards
No
Fate
How Died
Killed in action
Date
05-April-1918
Place
Dernancourt, France
Cemetery or Memorial
Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, France
Notes

Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial and Goombungee Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial. 

Brother of 313 Staff Sergeant Major George McGregor.

 

Walter McGregor arrived in France in January 1917 after four months training in England. On 5 April 1918 he was reported “wounded and missing” in a major attack at Dernancourt. In October a Court of Enquiry confirmed he had been killed in action. He has no known grave.