BORN HULL 05/05/1890. SON OF THOMAS & ELIZA SMITH, OF 8 JOHNS PLACE, YORK STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS) AND 1 PRINCESS WALK, CRAVEN STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS). A DOCK LABOURER. HE LIVED WITH HIS UNCLE AT CRAVEN STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINED THE 9TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS (ALEXANDRA PRINCE OF WALES OWN). REPORTED MISSING AND THEN KILLED IN ACTION, ON 10/07/1916, AGED 26. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, THOMAS. HIS PENSION WENT TO HIS MOTHER AT THIS ADDRESS.
First name:
WALTER ALFRED
Military Number:
11980
Rank:
Private
Date Died
10/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
26
