Name
Walter Winfield
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/02/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
T4/088841
Army Service Corps
798th Horse Transport Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MIKRA BRITISH CEMETERY, KALAMARIA
224
Greece
Headstone Inscription
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK & THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Long Marston Village Memorial, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
Walter Winfield was born in Berkhamsted, Herts in 1887, the son of John and Louisa Winfield (nee Baker) and was baptised on 23 February 1887 at Great Berkhamsted.
His father died in 1888 and on the 1891 Census he was living with his widowed mother and brother Walter at 1 Harrow Yard, Tring, Herts, where his mother was working as a silk mill hand. She remarried in 1891 to George Badrick and on the 1901 Census he was living with his stepfather, mother, brother Walter and four half siblings at Long Marston, nr Tring and working as an agricultural labourer.
He married May Lilian Gristwood in Berkhamsted in 1910 and on the 1911 Census they were living at Long Marston, Tring, Herts with their 4 month old daughter Eva. He was then working as a cowman on a farm.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted in Aylesbury, Bucks and served as a Driver with the 798th Horse Transport Company, Army Service Corps.
He died on 11 February 1918, aged 31, from malaria contracted on active service and is buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £9 10s and pay owing of £4 17s 1d. His daughter Eva received a pay owing payment of £9 14s. A pension of £1 0s 5d a week was awarded to his widow. Mrs May L Winfield, Cheddington Lane, Long Marston, Tring, Herts
Mrs May L Winfield, Cheddington Lane, Long Marston, Tring, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "UNTIL THE DAY BREAK & THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY".
Half brother George Badrick died in 1916 and is named on the Long Marston memorial. Half brother Percy died in 1918 and is named on the Tring Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
