Name
Walter William Belcher (DCM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant
16634
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY
V. C. 27.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Ware memorials
Clewer Village War Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1896 in Childrey, Wantage, Berkshire son of Henry and Emma Belcher later of Clewer Green, Windsor. He was working as a hotel waiter in Hastings in 1911. He married Elizabeth Walker (later Mrs Hulton of 47 Sutton, Stanton Harcourt, Eynsham, Oxon.) in 1916 in Windsor and they lived in Ware.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford. He won his D.C.M. (London Gazette 26 Jun 1918) “for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty after the enemy had made a determined attack in great strength and had penetrated a small section of the front line. He at once organised and led bombing parties with splendid courage and determination and drove the enemy back. The rapidity with which the enemy was ejected with heavy losses was largely due to his excellent leadership and the example which he set his men.” (London Gazette). Sadly, he was later killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
