BORN HULL 01/11/1891. SON OF MILDRED PEARSON ROCKS (1865-1933) & JOHN LECK WALTON (1857-1914), OF 9, DERWENT AVENUE, WESTBOURNE STREET, HULL, (1901 CENSUS) & THEN 4 WALTER LANE, LUDDENDENFOOT, HALIFAX, WEST YORKSHIRE, UK.
WILLIAM MARRIED ON 06/08/1914. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH FERNYHOUGH & 2 CHILDREN, LIVED AT 7 MILNER ROAD, LUDDENDENFOOT, HALIFAX, YORKS. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLY, SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED IN THE HEAD. RETURNED TO THE FORNT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/02/1917, AGED 25.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, DAVID WALTON, 205404, 2/6TH WEST RIDING REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT CAMBRAI, ON THE 27/11/1917.
I am grateful to John Hartley for the following information sent on 3/11/2014.
Both William and David lived in Luddendenfoot at the time of the 1911 census and both are commemorated on the Luddendenfoot War Memorial.
Prior to being called up on 8th August 1914 (reservist) William was a Reserve Shunter at Luddendenfoot Station. David, who enlisted at a later unknown date, was also a Shunter at the station prior to the war. There is reference to a third son, on David’s brief newspaper obituary ‘His mother has suffered heavily, this being the third son she has lost in the war – two soldiers and one sailor.’ (This may be their eldest brother John Edward Walton born Hull 1888, drowned at sea in 1914, aged 26 – If you have any information to confirm, please contact this Website. Thank You)
