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Walter Tunbridge

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in July. Influential in various reorganisations of the mechanical transport units, Tunbridge was appointed to command the 1 Anzac Corps Ammunition Park on 25 April 1916 and following a reorganisation in January 1917 became senior mechanical operator of the 1 Anzac Corps. During the
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branch, where he based himself until 1914. Appointed censor for the 3rd Military District in August 1914, he was swiftly promoted to deputy chief censor and before the month was out returned to the military as a lieutenant-colonel in the
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in February 1915, where they were incorporated into the British Army as the 300th and 301st Mechanical Transport Companies and sent to
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and transferred to the Queensland Artillery Garrison Battery, serving in
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his responsibilities covered the entire AIF contingent in France.
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1st Australian Division Ammunition Park (Mechanical Transport)
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in 1943 and was survived by his wife and three children.
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On 7 April 1904 Tunbridge married Leila Emily Brown in
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Australian military personnel of the Second Boer War
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Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
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Dover
Kent
Hawthorn, Victoria
Box Hill Cemetery
Queensland Defence Force
Citizens Military Force
Colonel
Second Boer War
First World War
Companion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration
Mentioned in Despatches
Colonel
CB
CMG
CBE
VD
Dover
Kent
Eythorne
Townsville
lieutenant
1891 shearers' strike
captain
major
South Africa
3rd Mounted Infantry Contingent

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