Name
Walter Henry Burroughs (*1)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/02/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/28759
Rifle Brigade
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park
Pre War
Born on 22 Jan 1888 in Rye House, Hoddesdon and baptised on 4 Mar 1888 son of Benjamin and Maria Burroughs and living in Old Highway, Hoddesdon in 1901 and 1891 and in 29 Beddingfield Street, Stratford, Essex with his brother in 1911.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Stratford and was killed in action on the Somme.
Additional Information
Baptised and enlisted as Walter Henry Burroughs but appears as Walter Charles Burroughs on some of the memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
