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210813 Sjt. Walter Prentice MM. British Army 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers from:Chilworth, Surrey Walter Prentice (seated right) Walter Prentice was my uncle. He died long before I was born but several items concerning him have come down to me. Last year a Leicester University exhibition included, among other things, his original torch (now in the Imperial war Museum) and photographs of his war medals. In Aug 1914 Walter joined 10th Royal Fusiliers, on the 30 Jul 1915 the 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers landed at Boulogne In this extract from “1914-1919 The Names of the Men who answered The Nation’s Call to Arms" from Bradbury Greatorex & Co Ltd. London, E.C. He is listed as: Aug 1914 - Prentice, W. - Lace - L/Corpl. - 10th R Fusiliers - Mlty. Medal 1917. A press cutting at Imperial War Museum, concerning the award of his Military Medal raeds: “Lance-Corpl. Walter Prentice, of the 10th Royal Fusiliers, son of Mr & Mrs H F Prentice, of Chilworth New Road, has been awarded the Military Medal for great bravery in the field. He nipped in the bud a German attempt to set a dug-out on fire, and also blew up a machine gun emplacement. Lance-Cpl Prentice, who is 26, was an old scholar of Archbishop Abbott’s School, Guildford.” Another press cutting from 1922 reads: "After school Walter Prentice “joined the firm of Messrs. Bradbury, Greatrex and Co., of Aldermanbury, E.C., with whom he remained, except for a break in his war service from August 1914, to February 1919, until his recent illness. At the outbreak of war he joined the 10th Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery during a trench raid in 1916, and was later mentioned in dispatches. He went through some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front." Walter Prentice (standing centre) Mary Prentice Add to this record.    Related Content: 10th (Stockbrokers) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? If so please let us know. Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?" We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages. The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.