Private Walter WHITELEY, 203154, 3rd / 4th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 4959, Mon. Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 21st June 1917, age 25.

Born Braintree, Essex, son of Lewis and Emma Whiteley.

1911 Census - 4 Egerton Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire - Lewis Whiteley, head, age 53, married, retired butcher, born Manchester, Lancashire; Emma Whiteley, wife, age 55, married 31 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Manchester, Lancashire; Arthur Whiteley, son, age 22, single, assistant pianoforte manufacturer, worker, born Manchester, Lancashire; Walter Whiteley. son, age 18, single, assistant shirt manufacturer, worker, born Bocking, Essex; Sarah Alice Harrup, servant, age 22, single, general servant domestic, born Northwich, Cheshire.

29th July 1916, Macfadyen Congregational Memorial Church, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire, Walter Whiteley, age 23, bachelor, shirt manufacturer, 4 Egerton Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, father Lewis Whiteley, Gentleman, married Cecilia Reid Crawford, age 27, spinster, 24 Hartington Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, father William Crawford, cotton buyer.

Children - Waltermina Cecilia Whiteley, born 10th November 1917.

Enlisted Manchester, Lancashire.  Resided 8, Totnes Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Lancashire.

15th February 1918, Probate - Walter Whiteley, 8, Totnes Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, a Private in the 3/4th Royal West Kent Regiment, died 21st June 1917, in France. Administration (with Will), Manchester 15th February to Cecilia Reid Whiteley, widow. Effects £1185 7s 4d.

Commemorated at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, V. D. 16., St Laurent-Blangy, France.

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