Lieutenant Colonel Walter Percy Farr

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Photograph B01560
Service number N75890
Ranks Held Captain, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, Temporary Major
Birth Date 21/11/1889
Death Date 16/11/1940
Death Place Australia
Final Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Service Australian Army
Units
  • 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade
  • 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment
  • 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade
  • Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division
  • Eastern Command
  • Light Horse
  • Staff
Place Australia
Conflicts/Operations
  • First World War, 1914-1918
  • Second World War, 1939-1945

Collection items

    Media


    Informal group portrait of headquarters staff of the Desert Mounted Corps on the steps of the ...

    Colonel Farr revealing the mystery of a Kodak camera to three Muslim women. Lieutenent Colonel ...

    Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. Major E. M. Williams, Brigadier General Chauvel and Captain W. ...

    Document


    Letters received by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, 3 January 1917 – 14 December 1917

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Timeline

Date of birth 21/11/1889
Date of embarkation 21/10/1914
Date of enlistment 24/09/1914
Date of recommendation honour or award 12/1915
Date of recommendation honour or award 29/04/1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 15/04/1918
Date of discharge 31/03/1919
Date of death 16/11/1940

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