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Married: 1920. Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia. Marriage Cert:3907/1920
Wife: Gertrude A McGuire. nee: Smith.
Mother: Margaret Catherine McGuire. nee: Dillworth.
Walter Patrick McGuire enlisted with A Company 34th Battalion AIF on the 11th of
December 1915 and was an original member of the Battalion. He left Sydney on board HMAT A20
"Hororata" on the 2nd of May 1916 and returned to Australia on the 18th of January 1919.
27th June 1917.
Informant; Private: 138 Walter Patrick McGUIRE. 34th Battalion.
Sergeant: 165 William James RICHMOND was my
Platoon Sergeant, No2 A Company. I was quite near to him in Houplines Trench at ARMENTIERES when
he was killed by a piece of shrapnel in the chest (outright). Saw his body afterwards and his
grave several times in the big cemetery at ARMENTIERES. We had been cloce friends.
Sergeant: 60 William Melville DWYER A Company was along side him when killed and will confirm
the above.
Dartford, England.
Walter was a 22 year old single Farmer from Merton Street, Boggabri, N.S.W upon enlistment.
Francis and Margaret McGuire were married in 1888 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Marriage Cert: 5164/
1888 and had 10 children. 7 boys and 3 girls. Mary Catherine McGuire born 1889 at Minmi,
N.S.W. Birth Cert:26199/1889 and died in 1889 at Murrurndi, N.S.W. Death Cert:10623/1889.
Alice A McGuire born 1890 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Birth Cert:15677/1890. Francis McGuire
born 1892 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Birth Cert:16075/1892 and died 1892 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Death Cert:
6124/1892. Walter P McGuire born 1893 at Adamstown, N.S.W. Birth Cert:3541/1893. Walter
Patrick McGuire born 1893 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Birth Cert:16262/1893. Francis William McGuire
born 1897 at Boggabri, N.S.W. Birth Cert:19956/1897 and died in 1969 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Death
Cert:33235/1967. Thomas C Mcguire born 1900 at Boggabri, N.S.W. Birth Cert:1667/1900.
John Henry McGuire born 1902 at Boggabri, N.S.W. Birth Cert:1463/1902 and died in 1957 at
Cessnock, N.S.W. Death Cert:22934/1957. Bertram James McGuire born 1904 at Boggabri, N.S.W.
Birth Cert:10516/1904 and died in 1968 at Gunnedah, N.S.W. Death Cert:44873/1968. (Female Infant)
died in 1912 at Boggabri, N.S.W. Death Cert:9580/1912.
(Australian National Archives)
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