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Sjt. Walter Prentice MM.
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Chilworth, Surrey
Walter Prentice was my uncle. He died long before I was born but several items concerning him have come down to me. Last year a Leicester University exhibition included, among other things, his original torch (now in the Imperial war Museum) and photographs of his war medals.
In Aug 1914 Walter joined 10th Royal Fusiliers, on the 30 Jul 1915 the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers landed at Boulogne In this extract from “1914-1919 The Names of the Men who answered The Nation’s Call to Arms" from Bradbury Greatorex & Co Ltd. London, E.C. He is listed as: Aug 1914 - Prentice, W. - Lace - L/Corpl. - 10th R Fusiliers - Mlty. Medal 1917.
A press cutting at Imperial War Museum, concerning the award of his Military Medal raeds: “Lance-Corpl. Walter Prentice, of the 10th Royal Fusiliers, son of Mr & Mrs H F Prentice, of Chilworth New Road, has been awarded the Military Medal for great bravery in the field. He nipped in the bud a German attempt to set a dug-out on fire, and also blew up a machine gun emplacement. Lance-Cpl Prentice, who is 26, was an old scholar of Archbishop Abbott’s School, Guildford.â€
Another press cutting from 1922 reads: "After school Walter Prentice “joined the firm of Messrs. Bradbury, Greatrex and Co., of Aldermanbury, E.C., with whom he remained, except for a break in his war service from August 1914, to February 1919, until his recent illness. At the outbreak of war he joined the 10th Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery during a trench raid in 1916, and was later mentioned in dispatches. He went through some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front."
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