Name
Walter Venables
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
9371
Royal Irish Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Panel 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial in France to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials, Irelands Memorial Record 1914-1918
Pre War
Walter Venables was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1886, son of Walter Venables a, Soap Maker and Mary Elizabeth Venables (nee Dean). One of eleven children although two died in infancy.
1891 Census records Walter Jr. aged 5, at school, living with his parents, four brothers, sisters Lilly (9) and Alice (1) at, 13 Huntingdon Terrace, Edmonton, Middx.
1901 Census, Walter Jr, (15) has left school and working as a General Labourer, living with his parents, four brothers Charles (18), Albert (13), Frank (9), Frederick (2), sisters Alice (11) and Lizzie (6) at, 8 Love lane, Tottenham, Middx.
Walter Jr. enlisted at Stratford East, Essex, in late 1906, in the 1st Battalion, Princes Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) with the service number 9371.
1911 Census records Walter Jr. aged 23, single and a Private with the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, stationed at St Lucia Barracks, Bordon Camp, Hampshire.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war on 4th August 1914, Walter Jr. and his Battalion were stationed at Shorncliffe Army Camp in Kent, moving to York on the 8th August, mobilized for war and moved to Harrow on 18th August. Arriving at Boulogne, France on 23rd August 1914.
William Jr. saw action on the Western Front. He was Killed in Action on 23rd November 1917, aged 31, during the Battle of Burlon Wood (23rd -28th November 1917) (part of the Battle of Cambrai 20th Nov – 30th Dec 1917) he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Panel 10.
Additional Information
His effects of £1-5s-9d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £20, went to his mother Mary Venables.
His younger brothers, Rifleman 6/350 Frank Venables of the 6th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, died on 26th August 1916, at the 13th Field Ambulance of wound received in action, and brother Private 67719 Frederick Stanley Venables of the 2nd/3rd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) was Killed in Action on 26th October 1917.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
