Name
Walter Frederick Fitch
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Suffolk Regiment
7th Bn., att British Military Mission, Washington.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
L.4139, South'n Div. Officer's Sec. (West half)
United States
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford, National Cemetery Memorial, USA
Pre War
Born in 1892 in Matching, Essex son of Frederick William and Harriet Winifred Fitch and lived in Balls Park Lodge, London Road, Hertford as a bank clerk in 1911 and later at White Lodge, Mangrove Road, Hertford. He married Alice Elizabeth.
Educated at Hertford Grammar School.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford 3081 Private Hertfordshire Regiment and entered France on 6 Nov 1914. He obtained a commission in the Suffolk Regiment on 27 Jan 1915.
Died of pneumonia at Camp Lewis, Washington while attached to the British Military Mission in Washington.
Additional Information
Walter is also commemorated in his parents' headstone in Hertford Corporation
Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:
CAPTAIN WALTER F. FITCH. M.C WHO DIED NOVEMBER 1ST 1918 AGED 25 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild