Thomas Walker
View Thomas on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
42493
Rank:
Private
Service:
Durham Light Infantry
Origin:
Date of birth:
31 October 1876
Date of death:
16 September 1916
Age at Death:
39
Known information
Thomas Walker was born at Lyddington on 31 October 1876, the son of Elizabeth Walker. Before the war he was working as a hotel porter in Birmingham. He enlisted in the 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry in 1915 and went out to France in August 1916. He died just a few weeks later. He was killed aged 39 in an attack on a German strongpoint, known as the Gird Trench, during the Battle on the Somme, on 16 September 1916, when his battalion suffered very heavy losses from enemy machine gun fire. Thomas has no known grave and is remembered on Pier 14A of the Thiepval Memorial in France and also on Lyddington's war memorial.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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