Name
Walter Warren
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/11/1914
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
294
London Regiment (Artists' Rifles) *1
28th (County of London)(Reserve) Bn.,
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NIEUWKERKE (NEUVE-EGLISE) CHURCHYARD
N.2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stevenage Old Town Memorial, St Nicholas' Church Memorial, Stevenage Old Town, Holy Trinity Church Memorial Roll of Honour, Stevenage Old Town
Pre War
Walter was the son of Henry & Clara Warren of Rockleaze, Stevenage.
He joined the Volunteer Force on the 23rd January 1900 as a member of the 28th London Regiment. The Territorial and Reserve Forces Act of 1907 combined the previously civilian-administered Volunteer Force, with the Militia and Yeomanry to become the Territorial Army. Walter was re-engaged into the Regiment on the 28th April 1908 and attended the Regiments Annual Camps until he was embodied into the Army on the 5th August 1914, the day after the Great War broke out.
Wartime Service
He was posted to Belgium on the 26th October had only been serving overseas for a month when he was killed by Shellfire whilst digging trenches by the Brewery Inn at Neuve Eglise, Belgium and is buried in the towns cemetery.
His headstone was heavily weathered and much of the detail had vanished.
Additional Information
Walter is also commemorated on the family grave in Stevenage (St. Nicholas) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO OF HIS [Henry Warren] SON WALTER, OF THE ARTISTS RIFLES, KILLED IN ACTION NEAR YPRES. NOVEMBER 27TH 1914,
BURIED AT NEUVE EGLISE. AGED 37 YEARS. IN DIE PRESENCE IS FULNESS(sic) OF JOY.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (University and Public Schools).
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
