Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT ‘Malta’ for Egypt 27.10.1918.
Roll Rank Trooper.
Roll Unit 7th General Service Reinforcements (GSR) Egypt.
McGuiness disembarked at Suez 22.11.1918 with his Unit. He marched in to the Central Training Depot at Moascar. With the cessation of hostilities, he was allotted to join the 10th Light Horse 4.1.1919. Trooper McGuiness was sent to the 26th Stationary Hospital in Ismalia sick 21.3.1919. On recovery, he marched out to Moascar to the Light Horse Details Camp 19.4.1919. He was taken on strength as a Trooper with 10th Light Horse at Zagazig and was involved in putting down a revolt- a resistance by the Egyptian population at Zagazig 27.5.1919. McGuiness was listed for return to Australia.
Embarked at Kantara for Australia per HMAT ‘Oxfordshire’ 10.7.1919.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 4.8.1919.
Discharged 15.10.1919.
Final Rank Trooper, 10th Light Horse Regiment.
Medical Condition NK.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes McGuiness is not listed in AWM records
Photos  Pte. Walter Robert James McGuiness. Photograper unknown, photographh courtesy Phil Sullivan 
              Zagazig, 10th Light Horse armoured boat used in 1919 uprisings. Photograph donor Major L.C.Timperley photograph source AWM J02485
              HS 'Oxfordshire'. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM 04714.005

Information Source
AWM J02485. Zagazig, 10th Light Horse armoured boat used in 1919 uprisings. Photograph donor Major L.C. Timperley, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM 04714.005 . HS 'Oxfordshire'. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM Embarkation Roll Walter James McGuiness
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, McGuiness W R J
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
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