BORN BEVERLEY 17/08/1890. SON OF JOHN ALEXANDER & HENRIETTA BALFOUR, HORNSEA AND THIS ADDRESS. EMIGRATED TO CANADA 1913. WORKED AS A LABOURER. ENLISTED IN THE CEF ON 26/09/1914. KILLED IN ACTION AT LANGEMARCK, ON 23/04/1915. HE LEFT £922 IN HIS WILL TO HIS SISTER HILDA MARY BALFOUR. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE MENIN GATE TO THE MISSING AT YPRES, AND LISTED ON HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL.
First name:
WALTER
Military Number:
20294
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
