Name
Reginald Frederick Walter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
470643
London Regiment (The Rangers)
1st/12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Rickmansworth memorials
Pre War
Reginald Walter was born in 1893 in Islington, son of Ernest and Flora Annie Walter. In 1901 the family were living at 25 Windermere Avenue Willesden, Middlesex, Reginald’s father, Ernest being a bank clerk. Reginald had an elder brother Sydney and younger sister Doris.
In 1911 they were living at 35 Mostyn Avenue, Wembley Hill. Reginald, aged 17, was working as a clerk in a hosiery warehouse. When he died his parents were living at The Haven, Cedars Avenue, Rickmansworth.
Wartime Service
Reginald enlisted in London and entered France on 24.12.1914. On July 1st 1916 his Battalion were involved in the attack on Gommecourt Salient.
After capturing the first two lines of trenches the British were trapped as the German artillery fired a standing barrage along no-man’s land. Attempts to send reinforcements failed.
His death in action was presumed on July 1st, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
Additional Information
His soldier’s effects of £4 15s 4d and War gratuity of £8 were left to his father Ernest.
Acknowledgments
Pat Hamilton
Malcolm Lennox
