Name
Walter Fred Cutting
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41705
South Staffordshire
First
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 90 to 92.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Wheathampstead Village Memorial, West Stow and surrounding parishes, West Stow, Suffolk
Pre War
Walter Fred was born in 1898 in North Stow, Thingoe, Suffolk (baptised All Saints, Wordwell) to Walter Cutting, a forester’s labourer, and Lena (nee Long).
On the 1901 Fred was living with his parents at Heath Cottages, West Stow, Thingoe, Suffolk. On the 1911 Census Fred was still at school and living with his parents at Stutton Hall Cottages, Stutton, Suffolk. His father was a domestic gardener and his mother a laundress.
Wartime Service
No Service Record could be found for Fred, who may have been called forward for service in 1916 as Private 41705 South Staffordshire Regiment and posted to 1st Battalion who had been landed at Zeebrugge to defend Antwerp in 1914. He joined them in the field in 1917 and probably took part in the Battles of 3rd Ypres, including Polygon Wood (26 Sep – 3 Oct 1917), Broodseinde (Oct 1917), Poelcapelle (9 Oct 1917) and 2nd Passchendaele (28 Oct – 10 Nov 1917).
It was during the opening day of this latter action on the 28 Oct 1917 that Fred was reported killed, his remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
War Gratuity £3 and arrears of £5 4s 1d was paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
