24th Battalion
Killed In Action
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William James Walsh (SN 5102) was born at Pootilla, and was a farm labourer at Bungaree when he enlisted on March 15th 1916. He was 32 years old and unmarried. He was posted to the 24th Infantry Battalion and embarked for active service in late July on board the Themistocles. He reached the battlefields of France in December 1916. In mid-1918 illness forced his evacuation to hospital in England, but he returned to France where on October 5th 1918 he died of wounds received at Montebrehain, in what proved to be the AIF’s large major battle of the war. He is buried at Tincourt New British Cemetery, France.
