Name
Walter White
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203158
Bedfordshire Regiment
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Panel 17.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Westmill, Not on the Braughing memorials
Pre War
Walter was born in Braughing, Herts. in 1893, and baptised in Braughing on 27 August 1893, George and Elizabeth White (nee Aylott) who had married in 1874.
In 1901 the family were living at Westmill, Hitchin. Present were both parents: George and Elizabeth – both 46, George working as an agricultural labourer. Their children were: Benjamin W (22), Sarah (15), Emma (12), Maude (Hilda Maude, 10), Walter (7), Fred (4) and Bertie (2).
By 1911 the family had moved to Little Hadham, Herts. Present were both parents, George still labouring on a farm. The census recorded they had been married for 36 years with 14 children, all living of whom 4 had died. Of the fourteen children, present were Benjamin (32), Emma (22), Hilda (20), Walter now 17 and Frederick now 15 and both farm labourers, and Bertie (12).
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted in Royston
Additional Information
The CWGC gives the information recorded above, however the medal roll index card suggests that Walter served as 15773 and 203158 of the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Walter’s older and younger brothers (George and Frederick) both served and were originally the Herts Regiment and then the Lincolnshires where they had consecutive service numbers. Both were killed and are on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Nigel Leaney, Jonty Wild
