Name
Walter Waldock
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
18717
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the fallen in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church, St Mary's Church Lychgate, Great Wymondley
Pre War
Walter Waldock was born in 1890, in Great Wymondley, Herts, son of Danial Waldock and Alice Waldock (nee Sutton). One of four children. Baptised on 16 February 1890, in the parish church Great Wymondley.
1891 Census records Walter aged 1, living with his parents, brother William (7), sisters Lillie (5), and Emma (3), at their widowed grandmother Sarah Sutton's home in Great Wymondley.
1901 Census records Walter aged 11, living with his parents, brother William (17), and sister Emma (13), in Great Wymondley.
1911 Census records Walter aged 21, single, living with his parents, brother William and sister Emma, in Great Wymondley. His occupation is given as a Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted at Hitchin, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 18717.
Walter disembarked in France on 27 July 1915. He was killed in action one year later on 27 July 1916, at The Battle of Delville Wood, (27 to 31 July 1916) (part of The Battle of the Somme 1 July 1916 to 18 November 1916), three days before the death of his brother William.
He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the fallen in France.
Additional Information
His father Danial received a Dependents Pension of 6/- a week for Walter and his brother William, and Walters effects of £6-12s-10d, Pay Owing and a £6-10s-00d, War Gratuity. His elder brother Private 20968 William Waldock was Killed in Action a few days later on the 30 July 1916, also at the Battle of the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
