Arthur George Allan WALTERS

WALTERS, Arthur George Allan

Service Numbers: 1769, Commissioned Officer
Enlisted: 14 May 1915
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 18th Infantry Battalion
Born: Saffron Walden, Essex, England., 1883
Home Town: Not yet discovered
Schooling: British Grammar School
Occupation: Police Constable
Died: Killed In Action, Pozières, France, 16 August 1916
Cemetery: Heilly Station Cemetery
Grave II. H. 2. INSCRIPTION GOD GIVE ME PATIENCE AND STRENGTH BELOVED UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN EDIE
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Surry Hills NSW Police Force Roll of Honour WW1
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World War 1 Service

14 May 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1769, 18th Infantry Battalion
19 Jun 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1769, 18th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Kanowna embarkation_ship_number: A61 public_note: ''
12 Sep 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1769, 18th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli
19 May 1918: Involvement AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Commissioned Officer, 18th Infantry Battalion, "Peaceful Penetration - Low-Cost, High-Gain Tactics on the Western Front", KIA vicinity Moralncourt

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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Mar 1883   Walters Arthur George A Saffron W. 4a 575
 

 

He was 36 and the son of Eliza Walters and the late George Walters; husband of Edith Walters, of 123, Stanley Rd., Teddington, Middlesex, England.

Saffron Walden is a market town in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England, 12 miles north of Bishop's Stortford, 15 miles  south of Cambridge and 43 miles  north of London. The main trading item in medieval times was wool. A guildhall was built by the wool-staplers in the market place, but demolished in 1847 to make way for a corn exchange. In the 16th and 17th centuries the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) was widely grown, thanks to the town's favourable soil and climate. The stigmas of the flower were used in medicines, as a condiment, in perfume, as an aphrodisiac, and as an expensive yellow dye. The industry gave Walden its present name. In the records of the Court of Common Pleas, the town was called Magna Walden in Hilary Term 1484, and Chipping Walden in the 15th and early 16th centuries, but by the 1540s it had become Saffron Walden.

He is remembered on the Saffron Walden War Memorial.

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