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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 513

Pair: Quartermaster Sergeant W. Walters, Royal Field Artillery, formerly a newspaperman in Singapore, who died of wounds on 10 April 1918

British War and Victory Medals (L-7989 B.Q.M.Sjt. W. Walters. R.A.), extremely fine (2)

William E. Walters was born at Mansfield and enlisted at Nottingham. He was the son of Samuel and Emma Walters of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and died of wounds on 10 April 1918 and is buried in the La Kreule Military Cemetery, Hazebrouck, Nord, France.

The Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times on 19 April 1918, states:

'DEATH OF BATTERY QR.-M.-SGT W.E.WALTERS

With deep regret we record the death of B.Q.M.S. Wm. Walters, from wounds received in France. The first intimation was received on Saturday afternoon, [13th April 1918] in a sympathetic letter from the head sister of No.1 Australian Clearing Station, that B.Q.M.S. Walters had been brought in there at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, April 9th, and died a few hours later, at four on Wednesday morning, April 10th. A letter was afterwards received from the Chaplain, saying that when brought in he was past mortal aid, suffering from severe wounds in the arm, side, and abdomen. Sergeant Walters early answered his country's call, and joined the first brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, formed at Nottingham in January, 1915. He was trained in Wollaton Park and on Salisbury Plain, crossing to France in the first week of January, 1916. He was soon promoted, and in the autumn of 1915 [SIC] was made B.Q.M.-Sergt. As a youth he was employed at the "Reporter" Office, afterwards taking an appointment on a newspaper at Singapore where he had been for some years. For ten years with prior to enlistment he had been with Mr. John Ford, of King's Walk, Nottingham. Sergeant Walters was the son of Mr. S. Walters, J.P., and Mrs. Walters, of Westhill Drive and was in his 42nd year.'

Sold together with photographs of his headstone and the graveyard in which he is buried.

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Sold for
£50

Starting price
£30