Name
Walter Hamilton Riach
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE CATEAU MILITARY CEMETERY
III. F. 4.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 25 Jun 1897 and baptised on 24 Jul 1897 in Murree, Bengal, India son of Lt. Col. Arthur Hamilton Dundas Riach R.E. and Mildred Agnes Riach later of 30 Mattock Lane, Ealing, London. Educated at the Imperial Service College, Windsor.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 30 Sep 1915 and became a prisoner of war on 23 Mar 1918. He died of wounds possibly in a German hospital at Le Cateau.
Additional Information
Imperial Service College was formed in Windsor in 1912 and then moved to Haileybury College, Hertford Heath in 1942.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
