Name
Walter Charles Wilson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265387
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
His home was at 2, Taylor's Cottages, Old Park Rd, Hitchin and he was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs C. Wilson.
Before joining up he was employed by Russell's Tanyard in Hitchin and was a member of the Territorial Force.
He was born in Shillington in Bedfordshire, but resided and enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Walter was allocated the Regimental Number 265387. He was in No. 4 Company of the Hertfordshires.
He had volunteered in August 1914 and went to the Western Front that same year. He fought at Loos, Arras, Lens and Cambrai and in 1916 was severely wounded. He was killed in action on the Somme. This was towards the end of the German offensive which had started on the 21st March 1918 and, in the retreat which followed, the Hertfordshires had been reduced to a small cadre.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 153 of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium This is curious as according to a report from his family and the history of the Hertfordshire Regiment, he was in the Somme Sector in the vicinity of Amiens at the time of his death.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
