Name
Walter Hayward
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/05/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
462
Australian Machine Gun Corps
6th Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MEMORIAL
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring
Pre War
Walter Hayward was born in St Leonards, Bucks in 1895 to Charles Hayward, agricultural labourer and Sarah (nee Brazier).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Charles William (born 1874), Harry (born 1875), Frank (born 18790, Kate born 1882), Ethel born 1884), Agnes (born 1886), Rosa (born 1887), Alice (born 1887) and Edith (born 1889) were living at Leyland (Farm).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Rosa, Edith, and Walter (Wallie) were living at Leylands, Buckland.
On the 1911 Census Walter’s parents, Charles (now a horseman) were still at Leyland Farm, Tring with sister Edith. Walter does not seem to appear in Census Records.
Walter had migrated to Australia landing on 11 Nov 1913 in Sydney and later lived in Mumbannar
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted on 22 Sep 1916.his occupation was labourer and his address as c/o D. McLennan, Mumbannar, via Heywood, Victoria. He was posted into the Australian Machine Gun Corps on 23 Sep 1916. He left Melbourne on the 25 Oct 1916 bound for UK arriving on 28 Dec 1916. and went to Belton Park, Grantham for Machine Gun Training on 3 Jan 1917.Walter went from Folkestone to Camiers, France ( MG Base Depot) on 10 Mar 1917 onward to join 6 Australian MG Coy on 15 Apr 1917 who were part of 2nd Australian Division. This division was taking part in the Arras Offensive particularly the Battle of Bullecourt (3- 17 May 1917), Walter was reported.
He was killed in thia action on 4 May 1917. He remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
Additional Information
His will left all to his sister Kate, who was living in Maida Vale.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
