WAR MEMORIALS IN THE PARISH OF NORTHOP
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
The villages of Northop, Northop Hall and Sychdyn (Soughton)
Name Walter Chambers
Regiment Royal Welsh Fusiliers 10th Btn.
Service Rank and Number Corporal 15400 (Sergeant? - see mistake in newspaper cutting below)
Military Cemetery/Memorial Etaples Military Cemetery
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial XX 11. L.9
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded British War Medal 1914 -1920 Victory Medal 1914 -1919 1914-15 Star
Date and Circumstances of Death He was killed in action at Arras on 27th June 1917.
Biographical Details Known
Walter was born in 1896. The 1901 census, when he was 5 reports that he lived in Bryn Seion Terrace with his parents Father John (a carpenter) and mother Emma. Walter had four sisters (Florence 3, Edith 4, Bertha 6 and Elizabeth 2) and one baby brother called Albert.
He joined up in June 1914 when he was 18 and served in France from 27th September 1915.
Regiment Royal Welsh Fusiliers 10th Btn.
Service Rank and Number Corporal 15400 (Sergeant? - see mistake in newspaper cutting below)
Military Cemetery/Memorial Etaples Military Cemetery
Ref No. of Grave or Memorial XX 11. L.9
Country of Cemetery/Memorial France
Medals Awarded British War Medal 1914 -1920 Victory Medal 1914 -1919 1914-15 Star
Date and Circumstances of Death He was killed in action at Arras on 27th June 1917.
Biographical Details Known
Walter was born in 1896. The 1901 census, when he was 5 reports that he lived in Bryn Seion Terrace with his parents Father John (a carpenter) and mother Emma. Walter had four sisters (Florence 3, Edith 4, Bertha 6 and Elizabeth 2) and one baby brother called Albert.
He joined up in June 1914 when he was 18 and served in France from 27th September 1915.
The County Herald
17th August 1917
28th June 1918
Visit to Walter's Grave in Etaples Military Cemetery on 12th September 2008
Etaples is situated 27 kilometeres south of Boulogne.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Viv and her cousin Louise entering the cemetery
Inside this unlocked 'safe' were two books. The first a register of all the identified casualties buried in the cemetery and the second, a visitors' book.
Etaples is the largest Commonwealth War Grave Commission site in France. There are 11,479 identified casualties buried here.
We found Walter's grave.
The cemetery is surrounded by trees, beautifully and immaculately tended and very, very peaceful.
Eifion and Viv at the end of our moving visit. We wrote in the Visitors' Book,
'A visit in memory of Walter Chambers- a Sychdyn lad. Hedd Perfaith Hedd'.
'A visit in memory of Walter Chambers- a Sychdyn lad. Hedd Perfaith Hedd'.