251410 Pte. Walter Kessell British Army 2/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry from:Ludgvan, Cornwall (d.30th October 1918 ) Walter Kessell was my great great Uncle. The youngest of his siblings.
He signed up in 1914 in Truro from his home in Ludgvan, trained in Salisbury Plain and was transported travelled across India.
His father died in 1915, his mother 1920.
Walter was one of a few who died of the epidemic of flu that took over his battalion at the end of the war. He never came home.
He, along with a fellow soldier who died at the same time, (the influenza 12) were remembered in a service at St James Church in Delhi with a plaque unveiled.
His sister was my great grandmother who was married with children at his death and no one knew of Walter until I did my tree. I believe no one spoke of him through the family.
I found his medals were returned in 1920 (presumably due to no next of kin being found although his war pension went to his mother, sister and next brother after he died)
I don't have a photograph but hold his memory now along with my family.
His name is on the Ludgvan War memorial in Cornwall.
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