Name
Walter Frank Turpin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/12/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
760546
London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) *1
1st/28th (County of London)(Reserve) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford
Pre War
Born in Hertford in 1891 son of Walter and Louisa (Oldridge) Turpin and living in 4 Villiers Street, Hertford in 1901, with his uncle in 16 Elsinore Road, Forest Hill in 1911 and later in 79 Wood Lane, Shepherd’s Bush, London.
He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and became a bank clerk. He married Elizabeth Maude Evelyn Webb on 11 Jul 1914 in Fulham Register Office.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 16 Apr 1915 at Hertford and entered France on 11 Aug 1915 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (University and Public Schools).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
