Brigadier Walter Edmund Hutchinson Cass

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

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