Name
Owen Biddell Wolton
1888
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/08/1915
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Suffolk Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 46 and 47.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial Lloyds Bank Memorial, Canons House, Bristol, Avon Lavenham War Memorial, Suffolk
Pre War
Owen
Biddell Wolton was born in 1888 in Ixworth, Suffolk to Cordy Samuel and Lucy Wolton. On
the 1891 Census his father is said to be a farmer and the family were living at
the Dairy Farm. He was educated at
Christ's Hospital, London and was a boarder there on the 1901 Census. On the
1911 Census he was living with his family at Lavenham Hall, Suffolk and working
as a bank clerk. He worked for Capital & Counties Bank at the Bishop’s
Stortford Branch. (Capital & Counties was taken over by Lloyds Bank in
1918.)
Wartime Service
Owen
initially enlisted into the Suffolk Yeomanry as a Lance Corporal under reg. No.
1327. He then transferred to the 5th Suffolk Regiment and was
granted a commission. He was killed in
action at Gallipoli on 12 August 1915, when the British attempted to take the
Tekke Tepe ridge, the eastern boundary of the Suvla Plain.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £44 9s 6d. Probate was granted in Bury St Edmunds on 20 February 1918 to Cordy Samuel Wolton gentleman and Arthur Alfred Pask bank manager, with effects of £742 5s 6d. His brother Capt. H C Wolton applied for his medals 2/12/22. Lloyds Bank Memorial, Canons House, Bristol was originally at the former head office premises at Lombard Street, London and moved to Bristol in 2004. He is also on the family grave's headstone in Lavenham, Suffolk.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
