Profile

WALTERS, Sydney
(Service number 8/122)

Aliases	Enlisted as Sidney
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	04/04/1891	Place of Birth	Temuka

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Oamaru
Occupation	Butcher
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	John WALTERS (father), Orari, Canterbury
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Otago Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	ruapehu or Hawkes Bay
Embarked From	Port Chalmers, Dunedin	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Storekeeper

Death

Date	21 January 1957	Age	55 years
Place of Death	Christchurch
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Sydney Walters was the youngest son of John Harris and Alice Ross (née Fergusson) Walters. His mother died at Orari eight days after the birth of her twelfth child, and when Sydney was only a year old. Sydney married Caroline (Carrie) Copp in 1925. His brother Clarence was killed in action in 1916 at the Somme. Three other brothers served in World War I - Herbert, Leonard and Gordon.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 April 2019]' NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 April 2019]

External Links

Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

Currently Assigned to

Not assigned.

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