2nd Field Ambulance
Killed In Action
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Walter Andrew Vale (SN 230/Lt.) was born in Ballarat, was single and an electrical engineer when he enlisted with the 2nd Field Ambulance on August 19th 1914 at the age of 28. His unit embarked from Melbourne aboard the Wiltshire on October 19th 1914. He served at Gallipoli until July 1915 when illness forced his evacuation to Malta and then England. His term of service with the AIF was brief because on December 27th 1915 he was discharged from the AIF in order to take up a commission with the East Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed on February 9th 1917 and is buried in the Combles Communal cemetery Extension, France. He was 31 years of age.
