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231367Sgt. Walter Edward Cowles
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Wymondham, Norfolk
(d.25th Sept 1915)
Walter Cowles was born in Wymondham. He enlisted in the 9th King's Royal Rifle Corps in Norwich. He served in France & Flanders from 21st May 1915 and was killed in action on 25th September 1915. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial and on the Wymondham War Memorial. He was a resident of Wymondham.
This paragraph is from the Royal of Honour and records the names of those killed in WWI and WWII whose names are on the Wymondham War Memorial in Norfolk. Detailed Information compiled by Chris Clarke in 2014
Walter was my mother's great uncle and his sister, my mother's maternal grandmother, never forgot her favourite brother and mourned him till she died. In fact she named her first born son Walter in his memory. After being wounded Walter was sent home on leave to recuperate. Just before he was sent back to the front he met my mother's mother, his 8 year old niece, in Wymondham and told her that he was going back to the war and that he would not return. His body was never found.
In August 2014 I took my 84 year old mother to Ypres so that she could leave a poppy cross at the panel on the Menin Gate, where his name is recorded, and another poppy cross at one of the graves of an unknown soldier (that may have been his) on behalf of herself and for her grandmother.
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