The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant W H Griffiths

Inscription - FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH"

Photograph by "Ben"

Second Lieutenant Walter Harold GRIFFITHS, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 4th October 1916, age 20.

Son of Walter Gould Griffiths and Olive Hicks Griffiths, of Berkeley House, Burton Road, Hornsea, Yorkshire / Melrose Villas, Hornsea, East Yorkshire.

Scholar Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Private 38600, Royal Army Medical Corps; 6th July 1916, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, West Yorkshire Regiment.

27th July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Mill Road Cemetery, XIV. G. 5., Thiepval, France. Commemorated on family grave St Mary Redcliffe Cemetery, Bath Road, Bristol, on Hornsea War Memorial and on Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Memorial.

NOTE: Officers Died in the Great War show date of death as 4th October 1916; CWGC web site show it as 30th September 1916.

London Gazette 28th October 1916.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants, from Reserve Battalions, to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants (attached), retaining their Army seniority: W H Griffiths

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