Notes
The Roll lists his address as 22 Dogsthorpe Road. It records his regimental number at death as 2400, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private W Sharman, regimental number 350649, died on 17/3/1918 serving in 7th Battalion Regiment, and is buried in grave XI.E.17 at Cologne Southern Cemetery in Germany. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Peterborough who enlisted at Sun Street. The Medal Rolls record that his initial regimental number was 2400 but later changed to 350649, and that he served overseas from 18/3/1915 to 21/5/1916, implying he was taken Prisoner of War on 21st/22nd May 1916. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 17/3/1918 at Lazaret in Wesel as a Prisoner of War, and that his mother Lucy was his legatee. Walter's birth was registered in St Neots District in Huntingdonshire in 1893. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Alfred and Lucy at 88 Westwood Street, Peterborough; his place of birth was given as Great Staughton. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 22 Dogsthorpe Road, Peterborough. When Walter's death was announced on 11/5/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser he was reported to have been taken Prisoner of War in May 1916. A fellow Prisoner had written to the family, informing them that Walter had died at 10:30am on 17/3/1918 from septic poisoning, following a long illness, and was to be buried in Wesel. Walter is also commemorated on his sister's headstone in Broadway Cemetery- see War Memorials Register ref 70073).