Name
Walter James Sandford
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
6
East Surrey Regiment
7th Bn.
"A" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 65 to 67.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Walter James Sandford was born in 1890 in Elsenham, Essex to John and Eliza Sandford and baptised in 1897 at Elsenham. (N.B. the birth is registered in the Bishop's Stortford district). The family were living in Windhill, Bishop's Stortford on the 1901 Census but by 1911 Walter was a boarder at the house of Elizabeth Thoroughgood (a widow and her family) in Feltham, Middx, and working as a gardener.
Wartime Service
Walter's single digit service number suggests that he was one of the first to enlist in August 1914 into the new 7th (Service) Battalion, when he enlisted in Kingston, Surrey. He served in France from 1 June 1915 with the East Surrey Regiment. Death was presumed on or since on 13 October 1915 during the Battle of Loos (against the Hohenzollen Redoubt).
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £7 10s and pay owing of £15 8s 4d. Brother to Ernest Alfred Sandford, Reg. No. 2191, Private in the East Surrey Regiment, also serving with A Company, 7th Btn, who was presumed dead on 13 October 1915 (the same day as his brother) and who is also commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
