Basic Details
Surname
Watford
Forenames
Walter
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
8486
Honours
M.M.
Notes
The Roll lists his address as Eastgate, Peterborough.

(CWGC records that Sergeant W Watford M.M., regimental number 8486, died on 30/7/1916 serving in 5th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is buried in grave I.G.26 at Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Coates who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at 2nd Field Ambulance, and that his widow Gertrude Mollie was his legatee.
Walter Watford's birth was registered in Whittlesey District in 1889. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents William and Alice Ann in Gracious Street, Whittlesey. On the 1911 census he was staying with his parents at 9 East Gate in Whittlesey; he was recorded on that census as being a Private in the Northamptonshire Regiment, who had completed 4 years' service. His marriage to Gertrude Farrell was registered in 1912 in Northampton District).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Northants Regt
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
5th Battalion
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Sergeant
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
France
Town of death
Not stated
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1916
Month of death
July
Day of death
30
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial