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Capt. William Walsh
British Army Royal Army Veterinary Corps
from:Ballina, Co. Mayo
(d.27th Feb 1919)
William Walsh was 26 when he died and is buried in the north-east part of the Ballina Catholic Cathedral Churchyard, Co. Mayo, Ireland. He was the son of F. Walsh of Ballina, Co. Mayo.
Cpl. William Walsh
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Guard Street, Kilkenny City
William Walsh enlisted at Carlow on 4th January 1904. He was 20 years and 9 months old. Following 3 months at the Royal Irish Regimental Department, Clonmel, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion. He was transferred to the 1st Battalion in India on 20th January 1905 where he attained a 3rd class certificate of education on 8th August 1908. He was serving with the 1st Battalion at Agra as of April 1911. He returned to the UK on 1st December 1911 and transferred to the Reserve on 3rd January 1912. William married Bridget Leahy a year later at St Mary's Church, Kilkenny City on 7th January 1913.
As the war clouds gathered he mobilised again at Clonmel on 6th August 1914 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion again and disembarked in France with his battalion on 13th August 1914. He was taken prisoner of war by the Germans on 20th October 1914 and was held at Limberg Camp in February 1915, transferring to internment in Holland on 1st March 1918.
On 21st September he was repatriated and transferred to the 3rd Battalion in December and continued in service under the Military Service Act. William was demobilised at Cork and transferred to the reserves on 11th March 1919.
William took up residence at New Buildings Lane, Kilkenny City. He was discharged with the rank of Corporal on 13th July 1919 but re-enlisted the following day at Kilkenny city for one year in the Labour Corps as a Corporal. He was posted initially to Irish Command Centre in Newtownards. William was finally discharged as surplus to military requirements on St Patricks Day 1920.
Pte William Walsh
British Army 43rd Btn Royal Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.15th Feb 1919)
L/Cpl. William Henry Walstow MM
British Army Royal Engineers
(d.20th May 1918)
William Walstow is buried in a Commonwealth War Grave in the Cemetery of St Laurence, Wormley, Herts.
Capt. Joseph S. Walter MC MID
British Army 7th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Rgt.
(d.21st May 1918)
Captain Walter was a prisoner at Holzminden and Bad Colberg POW Camps. He was killed for escaping on 21st May 1918. He is buried in Neiderzwehen Cemetery, Kassel, grave III.N.3.
Rflmn. Ernest Charles Walters
British Army 8th Btn. (Post Office Rifles) London Regiment
from:7 Nelson Street, Swindon
(d.15th September 1916)
Pioneer Henry Charles Walters
British Army 11th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Chingford
(d.31st Mar 1918)
Henry Walters was my grandad, he died of his wounds, and was buried in Namps-Au-Val British cemetery. He was a compositor in the print and left 8 children. He was married to Lilian Emily Coombs and lived in Chingford
Sgt. Henry James Walters
British Army att. H Coy. 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Sappers. Royal Engineers
from:Walsall, W. Midlands
(d.20th Nov 1918)
Henry Walters was the son of Henry and Mary Walters, husband of Jane Emily Walters, of 40 Countess St., Walsall, W. Midlands. He was aged 39 when he died and is buried in the Bangalore Cantonment (Kulpully) St. John Cemetery in India.
Pte. Jack Harold Walters
British Army 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Brierley Hill, Staffs
(d.8th October 1918)
My Great Uncle Harry Walters was a glass designer. I think he was a pacifist. He was sent white feathers and joined up later on in the war. I know Harry was an exceptionally brave man in civilian life as he dived into the River Severn to rescue a little girl. Her parents gave him a gold signet ring with an expression of eternal thanks for saving their daughter. I have that ring now. I am the only one left in the family. My ambition is to visit Forenville Military Cemetery where he has been buried. He was buried at La Targette British Cemetery first but was then exhumed and reburied. I do not know how or why he died. However, I think he may have been involved in the Second Battle of Cambrai since the cemetery is so near there.
Pte. James Walters
British Army 9th Battalion Notts & Derby Regt (Sherwood Forresters)
from:62, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham.
(d.9th Aug 1916)
Pte. James Walters, born 1900 in Nottingham. Son of James and Hannah Gertrude Walters, of 62, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham Enlisted aged 15 and was posted to the Machine Gun Company of the 9th Service Battalion, Notts & Derby Regt.
He sailed with the Battalion from Liverpool in early July 1915 for Gallipoli, landing at Suvla Bay 7 August 1915. He was then evacuated from Gallipoli in December 1915 and moved to Egypt via Imbros.
The Machine Gun Company was detached from the Battalion and attached to the 8th Battalion the South Staffs Regiment who went into action in August 1916 in the bitterly contested battle for Devils Wood (Delville Wood) He was killed along with 2 comrades by a trench mortar shell and buried on the battlefield by comrades He was exhumed post war and re-buried in the Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval. James was 16 years 11 Months when he was killed
Pte. James Walters
British Army 9th Btn. Sherwood Forresters
(d.9th Aug 1916)
Born around 1899, James was the son of James and Hannah Gertrude Walters, of 62, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham.
Private James Walters, service no. 25793 of the 9th Service Battalion, was killed in action at Delville Wood, Longueval 9/8/1916 aged 16yrs 11 Months. He was serving with the Machine Gun Company, 9th Sherwood Forresters which was attached to the South Staffordshire Regt prior to the Somme Offensive and went into action in Delville Wood around the 7th August 1916. James is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueville.
Pte. James Robert Walters
British Army 11th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Dover
Cpl. James George Walters
British Army 169th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Hammersmith, London
(d.12th April 1918)
James Walters
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Mayfield, Sussex
My Grandfather, James Walters enlisted in Hastings in September 1914. He was wounded in action on the the 3rd or 4th of June 1916 in Cuinchy, recorded in Sussex Daily News on the 3rd of July 1916. He was then wounded in action in March or April on the Somme. Recorded in the Sussex Daily News on the 3rd of June 1918. He was wounded again when serving with the 16th Royal Sussex. Recorded in the Sussex Daily News of the 30th of November 1918. Although 16th Battalion diary does not record it. His next of kin was given as living at Hadlow Down Sussex.
He was in Roehampton Hospital in the war where he had his fingers amputated through injury. He eventually lost the battle to live after the war due to shrapnel injuries and died of haemorrhage to the brain through injury.
Pte. John Thomas Walters
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucester Regment
from:Gloucester
(d.8th Aug 1915)
John Thomas Walters was a slipper maker by trade, following in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him. They were a Welsh family, but moved around during the 1860-1890s until they settled in Clapham, Kingsholm area of Gloucester. He was nicked named Slipper Tommy or Tom by his family and friends. This was because all the oldest males in the family were called John and were all Cordwainers (shoe or slipper makers). Even though a slipper maker by trade, Tom had also a record of being in the army. He was in the Boer War and joined the 3rd Btn. Gloucesters 1899-1901, but stayed on the army list to be called back right until 1911. He had married Sarah Brannan, who was a girl originally from Wrexham, Wales, but her parents came over from Ireland during the potato famine. Sarah and Tom had seven children (including my grandfather Jack Walters). They lived in Suffolk Street and later Columbia Street; I think they had several addresses around the Clapham.
John Thomas Walters was killed in action on 8th of August 1915. Records seem to have his death date wrong and his age, but after searching for months, I did manage to obtain a death certificate for him. We have no photograph of Tom and would love to put a face to the name. So proud of him.
Pte. John Thomas "Slipper Tommy" Walters
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire
from:Gloucester
(d.8th Aug 1915)
Leonard Walters DCM.
British Army 1/7th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
My wife's Grandfather Leonard Waters won the DCM for his actions as a stretcher barer near Irish Farm in the Ypres Salient.
Reginald Walters
Australian Imperial Force
from:Hampton,
Bdr. Thomas George Walters
British Army 159 Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Cornwall
Pte. Thomas David Walters
British Army 1st Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Bedweltty
(d.8th Oct 1918)
Pte. William Arthur Walters
British Army 1st Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
from:Nottingham
Pte. Anthony Walton
Briitish Army 23rd (4th Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Silksworth, Sunderland
(d.24th Nov 1916)
Anthony Walton died from war wounds on the 24th of November 1916, aged 30 years. He was seconded to the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers, from the 4th Tyneside Scottish, at the time of his death and is laid to rest at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Anthony's bravery will never be forgotten in our family, his memory lives and will live on with our family for eternity.
Pte. Arthur Walton
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
Signaller Arthur Walton took part in the Trench raid on the night of the 25-26th of June 1916. He was wounded in 1916
Pte. Ernest Walton
British Army 8th Btn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Whitley Bridge
(d.1st July 1916)
Ernest Walton was 22 years old, he is buried in Blighty Alley Cemetery and was the son of Henry and Mary Ann Walton, of Whitley Bridge, Goole, Yorks.
Pte. Ernest Walton
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Whitley Bridge
(d.1st July 1916)
My Great Great Uncle, Ernest Walton, was killed in action on the 1st day of the Battle of the Somme.
Pte. Herbert Walton
British Army 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Listers Row, Gt Houghton, Nr Barnsley
(d.18th August 1916)
Herbert Walton is remembered at the Ploegsteert Memorial.
Pte. Jesse Walton
British Army 1st Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Carrington, Cheshire
(d.3rd Sep 1918)
Dvr. John George Walton
British Army 225 Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Castle Eden
(d.30th Sep 1916)
John George Walton enlisted at West Hartlepool and served in 225th Field Company, Royal Engineers. He died age 20 on the 30th September 1916 and is buried at Englebelmer Communal Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals. John was born in Jarrow in 1895, son of John and Elizabeth Walton of Belmont Elwick, West Hartlepool.
Pte. John Walton
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. John Walton MM.
British Army 37th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Bermondsey, London
(d.26th July 1918)
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