BORN HULL 1895. YOUNGEST SON OF GEORGE SNELL & ALICE GRANTHAM, OF GLOUCESTER PLACE, ADELAIDE STREET, HULL. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1914, AGED 59. HE WORKED FOR THE HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY.
ENLISTED IN HULL. DIED OF WOUNDS ON 13/06/1915, AGED 19. – 16TH GENERAL HOSPITAL, BOLONGNE. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOWED MOTHER, ALICE. HE LEFT SIBLINGS, HARRIET, THOMAS, ARTHUR AND FEATHERSON SNELL.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HDM, 01/12/1916. *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, THOMAS SNELL, 10961, 7TH EYR WAS KILLED ON 08/11/1916, AGED 21.
First name:
WALTER
Regiment:
Military Number:
2391
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/06/1915
Place died:
Le Treport Military Cemetery, Seine Maritime, France
Age:
19
6 MARLBOROUGH TERRACE, CHURCHILL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
