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Pte. Walter Robertshaw
British Army 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:50 Victoria Road, London
(d.12th Oct 1918)
Walter Robertshaw was born in 1886, the son of Hillas and Catherine Elizabeth Robertshaw, both from Bradford. Although both his father and brother worked in the wool industry, Hillas was apprenticed in the printing industry and worked as a compositor (typesetter). Walter attended Bradford Grammar School only briefly, from 1899 to 1901 between the ages of thirteen and fifteen, living with his widowed father and two siblings, all at school, at Springfield Terrace. Afterwards he worked at the School as Student Assistant in the Art Department, until he was elected to a Bradford Local Art Exhibition which he took up at the Royal School of Art (now the Royal College), South Kensington, London in Autumn 1908. In the 1911 census he is enumerated as an "art student", living with his newly-married elder brother Joseph, a civil servant, in Mill Hill, north-west London. There is no record of what Walter studied for the nine terms until he graduated with the standard ARCA diploma in 1913, when he was living in Lilyville Road, Fulham, south-west London. At some point he secured an appointment as Art Master at the now defunct Kidderminster School of Art.Â
He served with the 11th Worcesters at Thessalonika, Greece, and died in hospital there of pneumonia in October 1918.
