BORN ULCEBY, LINCS, 1889. SON OF JOHN ALFRED & EMILY LIDGETT, OF ULCEBY, LINCS. HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1912. HIS WIFE ETHEL (WAUDBY) LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS AND 27 ST JAMES STREET, HULL. PRIOR TO WAR, HE WAS A TAXI DRIVER FOR THE HUMBER TRANSPORT COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 24TH TYNESIDE IRISH. HE WAS KILLED BY SHELL SPLINTER TO THE HEAD, ON 16/12/1916, AGED 27. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 4TH JANUARY 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HE IS BURIED AT RATION FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA CHAPELLE-D’ARMENTIERES. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “BELOVED HUSBAND OF ETHEL LIDGETT TILL WE MEET”.
First name:
WALTER
Military Number:
44170
Rank:
Private
Date Died
16/12/1916
Place died:
Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle-D'Armentieres, France
Age:
27
5 YORK TERRACE, MARMADUKE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
