Name
William Henry Walstow (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/05/1918
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
15646
Royal Engineers
23rd Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WORMLEY (ST. LAURENCE) CHURCHYARD
A. 1. 4.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Wormley memorials
Pre War
Born in 1877 in Swindon, Wilts, son of William and Mary Ann Walstow. Was apprenticed to the Great Western Railway on 18 November 1891, age 14.
1901 Census: Boarding at Louise Road, West Ham and working as a gas fitter.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Monmouth. Was gassed and repatriated, but later died at Wormleybury VAD hospital.
Additional Information
Mother Mary Ann received a £22 war gratuity.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
