Name
James Henry Wallen
12 November 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
22790
Royal Engineers
54th Field Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STAGLIENO CEMETERY, GENOA
I. D. 14.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
REMEMBERED ALWAYS IN ENGLAND
UK & Other Memorials
Bishops Stortford Town Memorial, Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Pre War
James Henry Wallen was born on 13 November 1892 in Much Hadham, Herts to Henry and Sarah Wallen and baptised there on 1 January 1893. On the 1901 Census the family were living at Great Parndon, Essex, where his father was a Horse keeper on a farm. By the 1911 Census they had moved to 57 New Town Road, Bishop's Stortford and James was working as a Groom Domestic. His parents later lived at 146 South Street, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Bishop’s Stortford and served in the Royal Engineers, 54th Field Company. He died due to illness in Italy and is believed to have died from influenza, probably in hospital in Genoa.
Additional Information
His father Henry received a war gratuity of £24 10s 0d and pay owing of £9 2s 0d. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox
