Walter Frederick Fitch (MC)

Name

Walter Frederick Fitch (MC)

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

01/11/1918
26

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Captain
Suffolk Regiment
7th Bn., att British Military Mission, Washington.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

Not Yet Researched
Military Cross

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
L.4139, South'n Div. Officer's Sec. (West half)
United States

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Hertford Town Memorial,
All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford,
Hertford Grammar Memorial - now Richard Hale School, Hertford,
National Cemetery Memorial, USA

Pre War

Born in 1892 in Matching, Essex son of Frederick William and Harriet Winifred Fitch and lived in Balls Park Lodge, London Road, Hertford as a bank clerk in 1911 and later at White Lodge, Mangrove Road, Hertford. He married Alice Elizabeth.

Educated at Hertford Grammar School.

Wartime Service

Enlisted at Hertford 3081 Private Hertfordshire Regiment and entered France on 6 Nov 1914. He obtained a commission in the Suffolk Regiment on 27 Jan 1915.

Died of pneumonia at Camp Lewis, Washington while attached to the British Military Mission in Washington.

Additional Information

Walter is also commemorated in his parents' headstone in Hertford Corporation
Cemetery. His part of the inscription reads:

Acknowledgments

Jonty Wild