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Rflmn. Walter Thomas Earthrowl

British Army 1st/21st Battalion London Regiment

from:London

(d.8th June 1917)

Walter Earthrowl served in the 1st Surrey Rifles, otherwise called 1st/21st (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment. He was killed on Day 2 of the Battle of Messines on 8th of June 1917 at the age of 26 and now lies in Bedford House War Cemetery to the south of Ypres.

Of the half a dozen or so members of the Earthrowl family who served in the First World War, he was the only one not to survive and return home, and was the youngest of a family of twelve siblings. He was my father's youngest uncle, and my great uncle.



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