Name
Oliver Cromwell Wall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
205163
Tank Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
LXVII. K. 35.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry Memorial, St Albans Cathedral, Barnet memorials - unresearched.
Pre War
Oliver Cromwell Wall was born in Friern Barnet, Middx. in 1896, the sone of Henry Cromwell Wall and Minnie Harriett Bryer Wall.
He went work for Parr's Bank in October 1914 but left in May 1915 to joint the army
Wartime Service
Formerly 2427 in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry he later became a Lance Corporal in the Tank Corps.
He died in hospital in Etaples on 23 October 1918.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: "A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST" WITH LOVING MEMORIES FROM ALL AT HOME"
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
