Roll of Honour 2023

P AGE 42

W ORLD W AR O NE (1914 - 1918) INCLUDING THOSE WHO DIED LATER AS A RESULT OF THIS WAR

S T . E DWARD ’ S S CHOOL , O XFORD R OLL OF H ONOUR

Name WALTER JOHN FRAMPTON (Sgt)

Arrive SES 1882

Lef SES 1885

Roll Number 518 Died 05:05:1915

Set / House -

Where DIED OF WOUNDS, EGYPT Serving with 16TH, AUSTRALIAN INFANTRY

Age 48

Buried Chatby Memorial Cemetery, Camembert, Alexandria, Egypt Remembered

Virtual War Memorial Australia, Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Hackney St. Peter’s College Fallen Honour Board, North Adelaide Christ Church Roll of Honour, The St. Edward’s School Chapel and The Cloisters Stone Memorial Born 1867 in Calca, South Australia, the son of a clergyman. Only at the School two years, he was a member of the School Cricket XI in both years and in the Vth Form. He had previously attended St. Peter’s College, Adelaide. He went up to Glasgow University, but then returned to work in the Coolgardie Mines in Western Australia also attending the Adelaide University. He also entered into the business of his uncle and was well known in wine growing circles in Happy Valley as well as the wool industry. When war broke out he enlisted as a Lance Sergeant in the Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force in January 1915, promoted to Sergeant in April and sent to Gallipoli with the Anzacs. There he landed at Gaba Tepe where he was wounded and sent back to hospital in Alexandria in Egypt. There he died of his injuries in May 1915. The Chronicle remembered him as ‘tall and powerful, much respected and beloved by all with whom he came into contact’,