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Pte. James Walters
British Army 9th Battalion Notts & Derby Regt (Sherwood Forresters)
from:62, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham.
(d.9th Aug 1916)
Pte. James Walters, born 1900 in Nottingham. Son of James and Hannah Gertrude Walters, of 62, Vernon Avenue, Old Basford, Nottingham Enlisted aged 15 and was posted to the Machine Gun Company of the 9th Service Battalion, Notts & Derby Regt.
He sailed with the Battalion from Liverpool in early July 1915 for Gallipoli, landing at Suvla Bay 7 August 1915. He was then evacuated from Gallipoli in December 1915 and moved to Egypt via Imbros.
The Machine Gun Company was detached from the Battalion and attached to the 8th Battalion the South Staffs Regiment who went into action in August 1916 in the bitterly contested battle for Devils Wood (Delville Wood) He was killed along with 2 comrades by a trench mortar shell and buried on the battlefield by comrades He was exhumed post war and re-buried in the Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval. James was 16 years 11 Months when he was killed
