Brigadier Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass

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Photograph A01469
Service number 845
Ranks Held Colonel, Corporal, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel
Birth Date 28/08/1876
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Albury
Death Date 06/11/1931
Death Place Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Final Rank Brigadier
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • 1st Australian Division
  • 1st Australian Infantry Brigade
  • 2nd Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade
  • 54th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
  • Australian Division
Places
Conflicts/Operations
  • South Africa, 1899-1902 (Boer War)
  • First World War, 1914-1918

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    Media


    Looking down Allah Gully on the right of the Anzac position. Left to right: Captain James, ...

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass CMG, 2nd Infantry Brigade.

    Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass CMG, 2nd Infantry Brigade.

    GALLIPOLI. 1915-11. BRIGADIER-GENERAL SMYTH VC, G.O.C. 1ST INFANTRY BRIGADE, AND MAJOR CASS (LATE ...

    Document


    Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection relating to the First World War service of Private George Eric Mackay and Major Murdoch Nish Mackay

Rolls

Timeline

Date of birth 28/08/1876
Date and unit at appointment (Officers) 18/08/1914 Appointed Brigade Major with the 2nd Infantry Battalion.
Date of embarkation 21/10/1914
Other units 06/05/1915 Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General - 2nd Divisional Headquarters.
Date promoted 07/08/1915 Appointed leiutenant colonel.
Date of recommendation honour or award 25/09/1915
Date of recommendation honour or award 12/12/1915
Other units 07/05/1915 Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 10/12/1915
Date of recommendation honour or award 09/12/1915
Other units 26/08/1916 Commanding Officer 14th Training Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 03/08/1916
Other units 21/02/1916 Commanding Officer 54th Battalion.
Date of recommendation honour or award 17/01/1916
Other units 26/09/1916 Temporary Commanding Officer D Group Headquarters, AIF Depots in UK.
Other 16/04/1917 AIF appointment terminated.
Date of recommendation honour or award 27/02/1917
Date of death 06/11/1931

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