DYER, Walter Henry

Walter was born 1886 in Carisbrooke to Agnes DYER. In 1891 the family lived at Mill Street in Newport & in 1901 at Forest Side in Carisbrooke. He married Beatrice Alice HOBBS in 1910 at Christ Church in Sandown. In 1911 Walter was a Bugler in The Rifles, serving in Winchester.

Walter, aged 31, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 11th of October 1917, his body was never recovered or identified. Walter is therefore commemorated by the Commission on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium together with nearly 40,000 of his First World War comrades who have no known grave.

Walter is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke War Memorials.