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Born: 3 April 1893
Died: 22 August 1915
Enlisted in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force on 11 August 1914 and after service in New Guinea returned to Australia and was discharged in late January 1915. Within two weeks he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force.
He became a sergeant in the 18th Battalion which landed at Gallipoli on 22 August 1915. The battalion was immediately sent into action at Hill 60. He was wounded soon after the commencement of the attack on the Turkish line. He was not seen again and his body was never recovered.
His father was Mosman postmaster from the mid-1890s until about 1910 and was listed in Sands Directory at Shadforth Street, Mosman between 1895 and 1909. [JSB]
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- Cornell Walter Goulburn : SERN 473/1145 : POB Albury NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Cornell Augustua Frederick (website)
- First World War Embarkation Rolls: Walter Goulburn Cornell (webpage)
- Red Cross Wounded and Missing: Walter Goulburn Cornell (website)
- Roll of Honour: Walter Goulburn Cornell (webpage)
- Find War Dead: CORNELL, WALTER GOULBURN (webpage)
- PERSONAL NOTES. OUR MEN OF GALLIPOLI. SERGEANT W. G. CORNELL. (newspaper article)
- HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES. (newspaper article)
- ROLL OF HONOUR. (newspaper article)
- Walter Goulburn Cornell (photograph)
- Commemorations
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- Cornell, W.G. on the Mosman Public School Roll of Honour