Portrait of 1815 Private (Pte) Walter Leonard Baxter of Pipers River, Tasmania. He enlisted in ...

Portrait of 1815 Private (Pte) Walter Leonard Baxter of Pipers River, Tasmania. He enlisted in the 12th Battalion on 13 January 1915 and embarked from Fremantle on 19 April 1915 for Egypt. He was treated for appendicitis in Cairo before proceeding to Gallipoli on 6 August 1915. He again suffered illness and was repatriated to Lemnos and then England to recuperate and undergo training at the Machine Gun School of Instruction, Weymouth, before rejoining his unit in Alexandria. On 2 April 1916 Pte Baxter was transferred to the 52nd Battalion which embarked for Marseilles arriving on 12 June 1916. Pte Baxter was killed in action on either 3 or 4 September 1916 during the Battle for Mouquet Farm. He has no known grave and is memorialised at Villers-Bretonneux.