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Murray: W DUMBRELL, enrolled in S. Africa.
URL1: Pte. 535 W DRUMBELL remained in S. Africa for further service when 5QIB returned to Aust.
Source:# 1472 Private 535 W DUMBRELL of 5QIB also served in WW1. He was 348 Sergeant Walter William DUMBRELL, killed in action in France in 1918.
URL2: AWM Roll of Honour - Walter William DUMBRELL (photo in uniform P06535.001) 348 Sergeant 41st Australian Infantry Battalion Australian Army First World War 1914-1918, killed in action 19.4.1918 France aged 33, place of association Rockhampton Qld., cemetery or memorial details - Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
URL3: WW1 AIF Walter William DUMBRELL 348 B Coy. 41Bn., a police constable aged 32 in 1915 born in Sydney NSW nok wife at Many Peaks via Gladstone Qld., 1 year 5th Qld. Contingent S. Africa, A/Sergt. 16.1.1916, Provost Cpl. 13.3.1916, embarked from Sydney 18.5.1916 per A64 Demosthenes, 41Bn. L/Sergt. 16.6.1917, Cpl. 4.7.1917, Sergt, 12.7.1917, killed in action by shellfire in the trenches north of the Bray, Corbie Rd. in the afternoon of 19.4.1918, buried by the Bn. Chaplain AA MILLS MC 1000 yards north of Sailly-le-Sec and about 3 miles SW of Morlancourt France, reburied in Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery 2000 yards north of Villers Bretonneux, plot 1 row D grave 5.
URL4: Mrs. W DUMBRELL, of Many Peaks, has been advised of the sad news that her husband, Sergeant Walter DUMBRELL, was killed in action on the 19th of April. Sergeant DUMBRELL, formerly a police constable, enlisted in Rockhampton on the 18th of September 1915, and left Australia on the 16th of May 1916, and went into action on the 24th of November of the same year. He was sent from France to England on the 1st of September 1917, as a lewis-gun instructor and had charge of a training battalion. He left England again for France on the 26th of February of this year. Sergeant DUMBRELL also served in the South African War.
URL5: DUMBRELL - Killed in action in France, April 19, 1918. Sergeant Walter DUMBRELL, son of the late David DUMBRELL, of Galston [NSW].
URL6: CENTRAL DISTRICT VOLUNTEERS. THIRTY-TWO MORE RECRUITS. A further thirty-two recruits have been accepted at Rockhampton for service with the Australian expeditionary forces, their names are ... W DUMBRELL, Many Peaks.
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