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The Roll, which omits his rank, lists his address as Alderman's Drive. It wrongly records his regimental number in the DLI as 31718.
(CWGC records that Private W B Elger died on 26/9/1916 while serving in 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry under regimental number 46060, and that he had formerly served in the Northumberland Fusiliers under regimental number 31718. He is buried in grave VI.H.13 at Adanac Military Cemetery at Miraumont in France. They record him as the son of W A Elger. Walter Bernard Elger's Army service file records that he was born in Crowland, and was 19 years old when he enlisted on 19/11/1914 in the Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 16462. While serving with that Regiment, he sustained a gunshot wound at Rouen on 8/3/1916, and was repatriated to England for treatment. He transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers on 28/6/1916 under regimental number 31718, and returned to France on 15/7/1916. On 22/7/1916 he was attached to the 13th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, to which he formally transferred on 13/9/1916, at which time his regimental number changed to 46060. He was serving in the 13th Battalion when he was killed in action on 26/9/1916. The Army file records Walter's father as William Alfred Elger of North Street, Crowland).