SARGEANT Walter

Known information

Walter Sargeant was born at Pickworth on 8 April 1887, the son of William Sargeant. He was married, and lived with his wife and young daughter at Ludbrooke in Lincolnshire. He was a policeman in Lincolnshire before the war and joined the Army from Ludbrooke on 18 August 1917. He enlisted as a motorcyclist in the Royal Engineers, but was later transferred into a special company. Walter went out to France on 1 November 1914, and was killed by a trench mortar bomb going off accidentally on 18 March 1918. George Phillips wrote: "In a letter of sympathy to the widow, Pioneer Sargeant's officer spoke very highly of his merits as a soldier and a comrade. The deceased's brother Frank Sargeant, of the Machine Gun Corps was awarded the Military Medal for gallantry in Egypt." Walter was 30 years old and is buried in Chapelle British Cemetery, grave II.B.19, and is remembered on Pickworth's war memorial.

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  • Pickworth Memorial
  • Chapelle British Cemetery 1
  • Chapelle British Cemetery 3
  • W Sargent 2
  • W Sargent 3

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5 images A picture of his headstone
By John Stokes on Sunday 30th November '14 at 7:04pm
A Rutlander, living in Belgium
2 images Visited Chapelle cemetery in Honlon and paid respect to Pioneer Walter Sargeants grave, having seen his name on the plague in Pickworth church for many years, I eventually got to find where he is laid to rest.16/09/2018
By Will gilman on Saturday 15th September '18 at 10:56pm
 

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