Notes
The Roll lists his address as 62 Alderman's Drive, Peterborough. It inaccurately records that Walter was killed in action on 30/6/1915; he actually died of wounds on 29/6/1915.
(CWGC records that Lance Corporal Walter Richard Smart, regimental number 2206, died on 29/6/1915 serving in the 6th Battalion of the London Regiment (City of London Rifles), and is buried in grave 7.3.2253 at Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough. They record him as the son of Richard Smart; husband of Eliza Smart. The inscription on Walter's gravestone in Broadway Cemetery records that he was wounded at Festubert, La Bassee in France, and died aged 25 at Theydon Towers Hospital on 29/6/1915. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Walter died of wounds on 29/6/1915 at Epping, and that his uncle Charles James Donnington was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that Walter's 1915 Star medal was issued under the rank of Rifleman; he had disembarked in France on 18/3/1915. His British and Victory medals were issued under the rank of Lance Corporal. Walter's death was registered in the Epping District in 1915. On the 1911 census he had been aged 20, living at 40 Alderman's Drive in Peterborough with his aunt and uncle, Fanny and Charles James Dorrington. On the 1901 census he had been living with the same aunt and uncle in Alderman's Drive. On the 1891 census he had been living with them at 45 Taverner's Lane in Peterborough, aged 7 months. The birth of Walter Richard Smart was registered in the Peterborough District in 1890. He was baptised on 5/10/1890 at Peterborough All Saints' Church, as the son of Richard and Eliza Smart of Dogsthorpe Road, Millfield, Peterborough. Richard's sister Fanny Smart had married Charles James Dorrington in 1875).