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Edward Leslie Watmuff

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Edward Leslie Watmuff
A photo of Edward Leslie Watmuff, recruit soldier, Service Number: 730
Date & Place: in Broadmeadows, VIC 3047, Australia
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Taken right after World War 1 began.
Appointed to the F Company, 8th Battalion AIF on enlistment, under Colonel Bolton. No colour patch (white on red) in this photo.
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Returned to Australia 6 May 1919, died in 1954 aged 64.
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07/10/2015
It's always nice to know what happened to men after they returned, thanks for the information........
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I think he'd been wounded twice? Promoted to Lance Corporal... interesting link! Brave kid.
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Poor lad
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Aussies. Good fighters. Brave soldiers. So said My Uncle Paul who fought with them in New Guinea.
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Big hands, no wonder!
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Broadmeadows is in Melbourne now (not a good suburb either)
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And the Band Played "Waltzing Matilida" . . .
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History World War I in1914 Military
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07/12/2015
I bet them soldiers would swing those guns like swords when they ran out of bullets , I know I would, check out the size of that blade
Was he in the Australian Army?
Yes, among first to enlist, and in first wave of Gallipoli landing, Australia's most famous battle defeat.
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08/19/2015
Ooooh I Lived near Broadmeadows.. Cool
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Cool pic
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10/06/2015
Very nice photo, he looks very proud.
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I would fight the with U S troops any day, they were just the same good fighters, brave soldiers and fought for each other.
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Edward Leslie Watmuff
Edward Leslie Watmuff of Curlwaa, NSW Australia was born in 1889 in Hawthorn, City of Boroondara County, VIC. Edward Watmuff was married to Dorothy (Reade) Watmuff, and died at age 65 years old in 1954 in Mildura, Mildura Rural City County.
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