Name
Walter Bath
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
8979
Rifle Brigade
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 46 - 48 and 50.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Tempsford in Bedfordshire but was resident in Hitchin. His home was 60, Grove Road, Hitchin. Another, later, home address given for him was 11, Cannon's Cottages, Hitchin.
He attended Hitchin British Boys' School.
Wartime Service
His Regimental Number being 8979 and was mobilised in Hitchin in August 1914.
He was involved in the Retreat from Mons and in the battles at La Bassee and was killed in action in the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He was in the 1st Battalion of the Regiment which was part of the 11th Brigade in the 4th Division of V Corps in the 2nd Army.
On the day of his death the enemy renewed attacks to the east as part of the Battle of St. Julien, near Ypres, and the 1st Battalion was badly mauled on the right flank of the Brigade. Their trenches were almost cleared of defenders.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panels 46-48 & 50 of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing at Ypres in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
