Enlisted in June 1915 and served with the 2/8th and 2/6th Battalions. Made a POW on the 21st March 1918.

Walter enlisted in Newark into the 8th Battalion on the 1st June 1915 and was issued the service number 4053. It would appear that he was posted to the 2/8th Battalion because he received dental treatment at Watford in November 1915.

Walter would have served in the Easter Rising in April 1916, before embarking to France with the 59th Division on 27th February 1917. He received his 6-digit number (306284) in March 1917.

On the 29th January 1918, Walter with 5 Officers and 142 Other Ranks were transferred to the 2/6th Battalion – see here. In February 1918 Walter attended a school of cooking before returning in March, just several days before the start of the ‘Kaiserschlacht’ – the German Spring Offensive on 21st March 1918.

Walter was serving with “A Company” when was he captured and was interned in Parchim POW camp. He was finally disembodied in March 1919.