Name
Walter John Fuller
8/07/1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/05/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
35044
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
2nd/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. XI. K. 5B.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt War Memorial, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorial
Pre War
Walter John Fuller was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 8th July 1893, son of Walter Fuller a, Nursery Gardener and Alice Fuller (nee Parker). The eldest of six children.
Walter Jr. was Baptised on 6th August 1893, in Cheshunt, Herts.
He attended St Josephs Infants School, then Dewhurst Endowed Boys School, Cheshunt, from March 1903, leaving in April 1907 to start work,
1901 Census records Walter Jr. aged 7, living with his Parents, brothers Ernest (4), William (6 months), and sister Lillian (3) at, 5 Cecil Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, Walter Jr. is working as a Garden Nursery Hand living with his parents, three brothers and two sisters at, 32 Dewhurst Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
Walter Jr. enlisted at Bedford, Beds, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 28240, later transferred to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment with the service number 35044. On completion of his training, he saw service on the Western front.
On 13th May 1918 Walter Jr. was admitted to No. 10 General Hospital, Rouen, with Severe Gas Poisoning he died from the effects of the gas on 16th May 1918. He is buried in the CWGC, St. Saver Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.
Extract from the Battalion War Diary for 11th May 1918.
The Battalion were at Julins Point and Rum Trench (Gommecourt). At 7pm a heavy concentration of gas shells fell about the Battalion.
Additional Information
His effects of £1-4s-3d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £10, went to his mother Alice Fuller.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
