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Personal data

• Name BLEAZARD
• Initials WJ
• First name WALTER JOHN
• Place of birth West Maitland
• Country New South Wales; Australia
• Last residence Newcastle, New South Wales
• Family Son of John and Mary Ann Eliza Bleazard, of 8, Park St., Hamilton, New South Wales
• Profession Painter

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 19 October 1914; Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia
• Service number 988
• Rank Lance Corporal (stretcher bearer)
• Medals Victory Medal, 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal
• Regiment and unit 4th Field Ambulance Australian Army Medical Corps
• Army - Corps - Division 4th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarkation 22 December 1914, from Port Melbourne, for the Middle East (Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Suez Canal); embarked for the Western Front on 3 June 1916 (Somme); moved north September 1916 (Hopoutre, Reninghelst; moved back to the Somme (October 1916) till May 1917; June 1917 Battle of Messines; Third Battle of Ypres; first Battle of Passchendaele

Death

• Wounded 21 October 1917; shell fragment wounds face, chest, left forearm
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at n° 17 CCS
• Date of death 28 October 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXII - H - 13A

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