Name
Walton Horace John Petley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/09/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
2021
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
1st/5th (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 21 Jun 1891 in Weybridge, Surrey son of Horace James and Amy Florence Petley, later of "Ormesby", Langley Road, Beckenham, Kent.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1899-1908 he became a bank clerk in London.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at London but he was rejected as medically unfit. He rejoined in Mar 1915 and entered France on 2 Sep 1916 and was killed in action at Leuze Wood near Combles.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
