Name
Walter William Robinson
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19238
Essex Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortfford, Little Hallingbury Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Walter William Robinson was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1897 to Alfred and Fanny Robinson. On the 1901 Census, the family were living at New Town Road in Bishop's Stortford where his father was a maltmaker. By 1911 they had moved to Wrights Green, Little Hallingbury, Essex where his father was labourer working for the Urban District Council on the roads and Walter was a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served with the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment and arrived in Egypt on 4 November 1915. In March they were sent to France, sailing to Marseilles and travelled by train to the area east of Pont Remy by the end of March. They were in action in July 1916 at the Battles of the Somme and Walter was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917.
Additional Information
Brother to Frederick Alfred Robinson, also named on Holy Trinity Church and Town Memorials, Bishop's Stortford and Little Hallingbury Memorial, Essex His father received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £4 17s 3d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
